Alexis Marie ChuteAlexis Marie Chute is an award-winning author, artist, filmmaker, curator, and inspirational speaker. Her memoir, Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy After Loss, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2017 and receivedmany literary awards. Expecting Sunshine is also a highly acclaimed feature documentary film, produced and directed by the author, that was screened around the world in 2018 and 2019. Chute holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is an internationally exhibited painter and photographer, curator of InFocus Photography Exhibition, and a widely published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her 8th Island Trilogy has been called "A Wrinkle in Time meets The Princess Bride" (Lee Lee Thompson, The Perpetual You), and was a 2018 "Top 15 Unputdownable YA Reads" pick (Bookstr). She lives in snowy Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with her husband, Aaron, and their three living children. Read More Read Less