Award-winning novelist and musician, David Doucette grew up in Ingonish, Cape Breton Island and attended St. Francis Xavier and Saint Mary’s University to pursue literature studies. It was in these years he began performing music and writing. He has lived on several continents, published four novels and has won the Dartmouth Book Award for Best Atlantic Canadian Fiction. He works as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, film composer and screenplay writer. He is owner of Smokey Studios, a film and music production company set in the Highlands of Cape Breton. At present, he is working on the film production of an adaptation of his novel, North of Smokey.