Award-winning novelist and musician, David Doucette grew up in Ingonish Beach, Cape Breton Island. A Literature graduate of St. Francis Xavier and Saint Mary’s Universities, Doucette has been writing stories and composing music since the age of 6. His novel Strong at the Broken Places won the Dartmouth Book Award for Best Atlantic Canadian Fiction. Doucette has lived in Asia, South America and the Middle East, working as a novelist, instrumentalist, songwriter, film composer and screenplay writer. He is owner of Smokey Studios, a film and music production company set in the Highlands of Cape Breton Island. Current projects include a feature film adapted from his novel, North of Smokey, plus the highly-anticipated Cape Breton jazz documentary, Come To the City. Both are due out early 2025.