Zoey Leigh Peterson is an American-Canadian novelist, who received a longlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination in 2017 for her debut novel Next Year, For Sure."Three first-time authors make Giller Prize longlist". The Globe and Mail, September 18, 2017. The novel, about a happy couple's year-long experiment with polyamory, was published in 2017 by Doubleday Canada."Love, marriage and an open relationship". Toronto Star, February 12, 2017.
Born in England to a United States Air Force family, Peterson was raised throughout the United States before moving in her early 20s to Philadelphia,"Profile: Zoey Leigh Peterson's debut novel examines polyamory and the complicated world of modern relationships". Quill & Quire, March 2017. where she lived in a communal home and was a musician with the local punk rock band Freemartin."Zoey Leigh Peterson's novel Next Year, For Sure reflects on changes of the heart". The Georgia Straight, January 25, 2017. She later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she has lived since the late 1990s and works as a librarian.
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