Visible Light

by Carol Windley

Carol Windley's debut collection of short stories is lit with the grey lucency of British Columbia's west coast, where often the line between sky and water is nearly imperceptible, where memory and the eye are sometimes deluded into seeing just outside the range of ordinary light. Here, with the dark and impenetrable rain forest as a backdrop, Windley's characters take their small but significant journeys and cross the invisible lines that form the boundaries of the psyche.

263 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

She followed in 1998 with her first novel, Breathing Underwater. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection Home Schooling (2006). That book was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Windley has also taught creative writing at Malaspina University-College.