Maura Hanrahan is a Professor of Humanities at the University of Lethbridge and author of several books, including Tsunami, which tells the story of the 1929 catastrophe that killed numerous people in Newfoundland. The book received the Heritage and History Award and was short-listed for the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-fiction. Another book, Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster, tells the story of a devastating hurricane in Labrador in 1885.
