Tara interviews Gina Leola Woolsey, author of Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner's Journey Through Disaster, a nonfiction account of Dr. John Butt who was Chief Medical Examiner at the time of the Swissair plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. 

Gina left her corporate career mid-life to pursue an education in creative writing, earning a BFA from the University of British Columbia and a MFA from the University of King's College.  She splits her time between small-town Alberta, downtown Montreal, and her hometown of Vancouver.  Gina won the 2010-2011 CBC Nonfiction Prize for My Best Friend, a decades-panning tale that offers a glimpse into her relationship with her troubled brother, from the innocence of their difficult childhood to his adult addictions.   

Website: https://www.ginaleolawoolsey.com/

Instagram: @ginaleola

Gina's Recommended Reading List & Current Reads:

• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley