Lori Lansens is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Lansens was a successful screenwriter, whose credits included the films South of Wawa, Wolf Girl and Marine Life, before publishing her first novel Rush Home Road in 2002. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Lansens' follow-up novel, The Girls, was published in 2005. The Girls received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2007.