Megan Gail Coles

Megan Gail Coles is an award-winning Canadian writer in Newfoundland and Labrador. She was born in Savage Cove and grew up there. Coles was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at the National Theatre School of Canada. She was co-founder and artistic director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company. She is executive director for Riddle Fence and has been writer-in-residence at the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John's. Her short story collection Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome received a ReLit Award, a Winterset Award and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. She has written several plays, including Our Eliza, The Battery, Bound, Falling Trees, Grace and Squawk. In 2013, she received the Rhonda Payne Theatre Award. She appeared in "Fisherman's Daughter", a 2009 episode of the CBC Television documentary series Land and Sea.