Alongside a music career as a singer-songwriter and co-founder of the seminal Canadian

Folk group Stringband, Marie-Lynn Hammond has, for the past 40 years,

written magazine and newspaper articles; essays, including over twenty radio essays;

stage plays, all professionally produced; one feature film (co-written); a handful of

short stories; and poetry. More recently she’s co-written, with writer Michael

Kaufman, a young adult novel, Moon Storm Rising, under the pen name Kayden

Quinn.

Moon Storm Rising is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, with strong environmental

themes. And while set in the real world, it features an unusual fantasy element that

perfectly symbolizes the inextricable link between humans and the rest of the natural

world. The book is available on Amazon.

Marie-Lynn has also worked as a copy editor for the last three decades. She copy-

edited Esi Edugyan’s first Giller-Prize winner, Half-Blood Blues, and she’s proofread

or copy-edited books by, among others, Joseph Škvorecký, Linda Spalding, Paul

Watson, and business writer Rod McQueen, and co-translated into French a book of

poems for children by Dennis Lee