Hilary Faktor
Thriller and domestic suspense writer, Author of Pretty Bird
Coming Soon!
Photo by Alison Lapczuk
Hilary Faktor is a writer shaped by the boreal forest and the rhythms of a northern mining town. Her work often draws on family folklore and lived experience to explore overlooked landscapes, quiet histories, and the people who inhabit them.
Her essays and journalism have appeared in Canada’s History, The Globe and Mail, HuffPost Canada, and Maclean’s, among other publications. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in English at the University of Calgary. Her debut novel, Pretty Bird, is a contemporary coming-of-age thriller that moves from modern-day Toronto to an isolated Saskatchewan farm. The novel will be released by Rowan Prose Publishing on October 20, 2026.
When she isn’t writing or studying, Hilary can often be found wandering bookshops, attending writers’ conferences, or driving her daughters between sports and activities while listening to audiobooks, with her black lab close by.
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Just how far will the colony go to get her back in their clutches?
Maeve Whitman has come a long way. As a teenage mom who’d escaped an artists’ cult by sacrificing her best friend, she’s created a safe and perfect suburban life.
But when the former cult leader, who is now a renowned photographer and father of her daughter, tracks her down and threatens to force her child back to the farm she escaped from, Maeve is faced with a choice: take her children and flee or stay and fight for the life she’s built for her family.
With her daughter facing the chaotic and slippery monsters who almost destroyed Maeve, she’s pulled back into a web of destruction she thought she’d escaped for good. By confronting her past, she’ll need to find the strength to take back her future and change the path her mother once set for them.
