Faith Johnston lives in Winnipeg in the summer and in India in the darkest, coldest months of the winter.
She has written a number of articles and reviews as well as three books: A Great Restlessness (University of Manitoba Press 2006), The Only Man in the World (Turnstone Press 2012), and Four Miles to Freedom (Random House India 2013).
A Great Restlessness won the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year award and four other prizes. The Only Man in the World was short-listed for the Margaret Laurence award for fiction.