Claudia Dey is a Toronto-based novelist. Her first book Stunt, published in 2008, followed nine-year-old Eugenia Ledoux who is obsessed with tracking down her absent father. The book was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her latest is the 2018 novel Heartbreaker, which takes place in a small, isolated community called "the territory." Divided into three parts, the novel tells the story of a woman's disappearance from the perspective of her daughter, dog and her daughter's crush. Dey has also acted in horror films and is co-designer of Horses Atelier.