Marian Botsford Fraser is a freelance writer, broadcaster, and critic whose work has appeared in Granta, Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and Toronto Life. She is Books Editor for More Magazine and a contributor to CBC Radio's Ideas and Tapestry. She is also the author of Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women and Walking the Line: Travels along the Canadian/American Border. She lives in Stratford, Ontario.

Requiem for My Brother, her heart-breaking story of her brother's illness and ultimately a test of the sibling bond, is forthcoming in paperback next fall. It was nominated for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2007, and was the winner of the CBC's Northern Ontario Reads Competition.