Theresa Shea is the author of two published novels. Her most recent, The Shade Tree, won the 2022 Alberta Fiction Award and the 2020 Guernica Prize (for best unpublished literary fiction). Her debut novel, The Unfinished Child (2013), was a finalist for the Alberta Fiction Award and the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Popular with book clubs, it sold over 12,000 copies. 

Her third novel, Dog Days of Planet Earth will be published by ECW Press in fall 2026. 

Shea was born in the US and moved to Canada in 1977. A graduate of McGill, Queen’s, and the University of Alberta, she lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta.