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wonderful collection of short stories, set in remote Northern Ontario at the turn of theth century, The characters mappers, miners, trappers, and women who find themselves facing extraordinary hardships face the challenges of isolation and extreme weather.
There are spirits and other malevolent forces in the forests, mines and rivers, and these forces work both for and against their human counterparts.
There is humour, and some surprising conclusions to these stories,

but always a deep sympathy for the protagonists, and a sense of satisfaction when justice is delivered.
Highly recommended. as part of best american short storiesThe stories in The Uncharted Heart bring to life the harsh struggles, the dreams, the greed, the obsessions, the xenophobia and the love experienced by the traders, trappers and prospectors who flocked to northern Ontario during the Porcupine Gold Rush.


"The Uncharted Heart" the genesis of which lies in a true story tells of a government surveyor's magical encounter with a French woman of native heritage who has survived alone in the bush after the sudden death of her trapper husband and children.
"The Ice Woman"is the tale of an Ojibway nebaunaube a lake mermaid discovered encased in a block of ice by a fur trader at the edge of a lake during the spring thaw.
In "Paper Son," a Chinese houseboy to a smalltown doctor and his sick wife alleviates her pain by making opium from the poppies in her garden.
In "Traplines," a trapper's wife uses her wits to defend herself and her child from the advances of a violent neighbour suspected of possessing supernatural powers.


Distinctively Canadian, yet universal in appeal, the stories in The Uncharted Heart are about what it is to be human.
I was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Beginning inand for the next thirty years my father, novelist William Hardy, worked for the Cherokee Historical Association, first as Director of the symphonic drama Unto These Hills, which chronicles the events leading up to the Trail of Tears, the removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma, then as its Producer.
As a result I spent seven summers on the Qualla boundary, the reservation of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation.
Myshort story collection, Constant Fire Oberon was set there and draws heavily on the history and mythology of that area.
Viking Press published my first novel, A Cry of Bees, inwhen I was a mereyears old, Dont ask me how that happened, Cry of B I was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Beginning inand for the next thirty years my father, novelist William Hardy, worked for the Cherokee Historical Association, first as Director of the symphonic drama Unto These Hills, which chronicles the events leading up to the Trail of Tears, the removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma, then as its Producer.
As a result I spent seven summers on the Qualla boundary, the reservation of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation.
Myshort story collection, Constant Fire Oberon was set there and draws heavily on the history and mythology of that area.
Viking Press published my first novel, A Cry of Bees, inwhen I was a mereyears old, Don't ask me how that happened, Cry of Bees is the story of a little girl growing up in a Southern Indiana boarding house full of decrepit old ladies.
It's definitely what I'd call black humor, Out of print for many years, it can be found in most libraries and occasionally online at such sites as sitelink www.
abebooks. com. In the twenty five year publishing hiatus which followed, I: took a BA in English with Honors in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill learned French, Latin, Italian, Greek and German earned an MA and All But Dissertation for a PhD in post classical history at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies, writing on that fourth century, neoclassical powerhouse, Athanasius of Alexandria.
was awarded many scholarships, among them the Dumbarton Oakes Fellowship, Massey College Junior Fellowship, AAUW Fellowship, Connaught Fellowship and a Fullbright to Rome which I didn't take, but, hey, they gave it to me! became a Catholic and lapsed became an Italiophile and never lapsed suffered catastrophic illness in the form of Guillian Barre Syndrome, which left me paralyzed and in hospital for a very long time learned to walk again raised three kids Sabrina, Alice and William Miller, and acquired two Shanah and Raina Trevenna when I married Ken Trevenna, a professional musician and Executive Director of Operations at the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology OIART.
Ken hales from Northern Ontario, which provided me with both the inspiration and the setting for The Uncharted Heart and Surface Rights.
worked as a journalist and business communicator, logging twenty one years and counting as the Director of Communications for the London and St.
Thomas Association of REALTORS. InI won the Journey Prize for the most accomplished work to appear in a Canadian literary journal for Long Man the River, an excerpt from Constant Fire, originally published in Exile, then republished in both The Journey Prize Anthology McClelland Stewart and Best Canadian Short Stories Oberon,.
That was a blast. I was also nominated for the finalist for the Western Magazine Awards Program for fiction for The Ice Woman and my work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories of, Best American Short Stories of, Houghton Mifflin and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, St.
Martin's Press. My most recent collection of short stories, The Uncharted Heart, is set in the Porcupine region of Northern Ontario around the time of the Gold Rush and was published inby Knopf Canada.
It received the Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award, My most recent novel is Broken Road, set against the historical backdrop of the events leading up to the Trail of Tears.
It was published in Octoberby Exile Editions, The Geomancers Compass, published inby Tundra, is a young adult novel in which ancient Chinese cosmology and Augmented Reality work in conjunction to lay a generations long curse.
Surface Rights, slated for publication with Dundurn Press in December, is a contemporary novel about a middle aged woman who travels to the family cottage to scatter the ashes of her husband, father and twin sister, onl sitelink.