Lise Mayne, author, lives in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. Historical injustice and the search for home are central themes of her work. Her novel Becoming Sand, presented a fictional Francophone family’s history in Canada. Her new novel Time Enough, Oprelle Publications 2024, is the migration saga of a family from Isle of Man to Canada via Michigan in the early 1900’s. Time Enough was a finalist in the Page Turner Awards, 2025 and won a Bronze Medal, Book of the Year 2026, Coffee Pot Book Club, Bronze Medal, Reader Views, Reviewers Choice Award, 2026 and was a runner-up in the San Francisco Book Festival, 2025. Lise’s poetry appears in international literary publications, nominated for several awards. Her article “Plastic Blues, One Albertan’s Fight Against Government-Sanctioned Pollution,” Alberta Views, December, 2023 was a finalist in the Alberta Magazine Publisher Awards. Lise volunteers as a Rocky Mountain bluebird nest-box monitor, plays the harp, and cherishes time with her family.