About Claire
Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer. After early training as a lawyer, she taught college literature, and creative writing at McGill University. She has also worked extensively as a translator in her native Montreal, winning the Glassco Prize for her translation of Quebec's first novel, Le chercheur de tresors/The Alchemist.
Rothman's short fiction has appeared in numerous literary periodicals. She has published two story collections, Salad Days and Black Tulips. The Heart Specialist is her first novel. Long-listed for Canada's prestigious Scotia Bank-Giller Prize, it is a Canadian bestseller and will soon be released in Italy, Germany, the US, the UK and French Canada.
Claire Holden Rothman lives in Montreal with actor Arthur Holden and their two sons.