Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer born on May 21, 1964, in Steinbach, Manitoba. She has authored ten books and established herself as a significant voice in contemporary Canadian literature. Toews's works include A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). Her writing has received substantial critical recognition, earning her the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. She has also been a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.