Nicola Davison

Nicola Davison is a Canadian writer and photographer from Nova Scotia. She won the Ann Connor Brimer Award in 2023 for her book Decoding Dot Grey.

Biography Nicola Davison was born in Nova Scotia, and is based in the community of Dartmouth. She published her first novel, In the Wake, in 2018, after attending a workshop directed by Donna Morrissey through the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. While writing the book, she was mentored by Carol Bruneau, with whom she later became friends. In the Wake won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award in 2019.

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