Gwen Tuinman

The cover of  UNREST, my recently released 19^th century historical adventure, is art. Quite literally.

This is a tale of coincidences. When book designer Talia Abramson incorporated the art of Toronto-based painter, Keight MacLean, I was over-the-moon excited. Of all the artists in the world whose work Talia might have selected, she’d been drawn to an artist I’d interviewed a few years earlier and adored. Keight works with paint and I work with words, but we both explore the suppression of women’s voices in history.

Today, I’m resharing our conversation from the fall of 2022.