Sue Murtagh lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her writing has appeared in The Nashwaak Review, Grain, carte blanche, the Humber Literary Review, The New Quarterly, yolk, and The Walrus. She won the Budge Wilson Short Story Prize in 2016. In 2020, she apprenticed with Alexander Macleod through the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod mentorship program. Sue then graduated with distinction in 2022 from the Humber School for Writers, working with Danila Botha. We’re Not Rich is her first book. Sue is a proud member of the Writers' Union of Canada.