• Weaving together powerful love, intense deception, and an insular, homophobic island setting, A Different Hurricane is a family drama centred on the love of two best friends and lovers, who hide their love even from their wives, until their deception is revealed
• For readers seeking a novel that explores the Black Caribbean experience with same-sex love, similar to Ani Kayode Somtochukwu's And Then He Sang a Lullaby and Daniel Black's Don't Cry For Me
• Author is a pioneering writer of gay fiction; his debut novel Spirits in the Dark, an intersectional novel of the LGBTQ+ and Caribbean-Canadian experience that was far ahead of its time, was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award
• Author residence: Montreal
• Author hometown: St. Vincent

H. Nigel Thomas is the author of thirteen books, comprising fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, and is the recipient of many awards, including the 2022 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. He is a Vincentian Canadian who lives in the Montreal suburb of Greenfield Park.