Myrl Coulter grew up on the Canadian prairies and has been a writer since her high school years. She’s also been a grocery store cashier, a bank clerk, an x-ray technician, a stay-at-home mom, a sales representative, a small business owner, a marketing consultant, and a stills photographer in the Alberta film industry. Myrl then earned a PhD at the University of Alberta, where she taught English and writing. Some of the beautiful locales of She Who Burns, including Scotland and Arizona, were inspired by the time Myrl spent in those places.
Myrl’s first book, The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers won the First Book Competition sponsored by The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award. Her second, A Year of Days, was an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) bronze medallist and a Foreword Review INDIEFAB finalist in the Essays category. Her third, The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories, is a captivating collection of connected short stories about family secrets.