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Hi, I’m Nancy Moir

I live in a home in-between cornfields, in Ottawa, Ontario. All around these fields, suburbia is pressing. Maybe that’s why my stories are set in the not-so-distant past and the not-so-impossible future. They reflect the competing forces in my immediate environment.

I’m drawn to imagine the discreet but not necessarily quiet lives of those who, like myself, were raised in rural anywhere Canada, before smartphones or even the internet. But I’m also intrigued by the future and I enjoy trying to answer its unasked questions.

“The author’s style is deceptively simple: writing of this caliber only comes with talent and hard work…Economical linear story telling that yields an abundance of psychological and literary intricacies.”

Fleas on the Dog, Issue 6.

I hone my ideas while riding my bicycles through the countryside. When I’m not writing, I can be found planning, weeding, or harvesting a cornucopia of weird and wonderful organic vegetables, or conversing with my husband and cats (some of whom are kind enough to respond).

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature, and I work as a technical writer.