Elizabeth Nickson has an MBA in arts administration from York University. While at university she worked for four Canadian theatre companies in Toronto and Vancouver, two of which she began, one of which, the Women's Theatre Co-op, was Canada's first professional feminist theatre company. After university, in New York she worked first for a Broadway producer, and then for three years, for legendary film director Arthur Penn. At Time Magazine in London, she covered film, theatre, visual arts, and literature. Her novel, The Monkey-Puzzle Tree, was published by Bloomsbury UK and Knopf Canada. She has been a contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail Book Review, a columnist for the Globe and the National Post and has written for many mainstream newspapers and magazines in the U.K. and U.S.. Her next book, A Soft Place to Fall will be published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins, U.S..