Award-winning author of BAD CREE and member of Sucker Creek First Nation, shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Amazon First Novel Award, winner of the MacEwan Book of the Year award and the ALA’s 2024 Youth Media Award, Jessica Johns’s THIN SPACES, a speculative literary horror featuring nêhiyaw sisters who must live through an environmental apocalypse in two realities at once: one where they are trapped in an ancestral realm and taught the traditional knowledge they have always craved but never had access to, and the other where they must put that knowledge into practice to save their loved ones without any memory of ever having learned it, exploring the ravages of colonialism, and spotlighting the prairies as a place of violence and possibility, to Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press (US, English) and Jennifer Lambert at HarperCollins Canada (Canada, English), by Rachel Letofsky at the Transatlantic Agency. Rights: Rachel@transatlanticagency.com
Jessica Johns is represented by Rachel Letofsky.
Congratulations, Jessica!