From the back cover:

"Dona Sturmanis' You Mistook Heaven is a quiet, rich collection of poems that explores the complexities of ancestry, relationships, contemporary life and, most distinctively, place. The poems weave gracefully through our time and are delivered in a voice that is both sure of itself aesthetically, but never allows the technical to overwhelm the human, funny and sometimes tragic nature of the material. A powerful, consistent vision surfaces in this book that unifies its disparate threads and introduces Dona Sturmanis as a strong new voice in Canadian poetry.

"You Mistook Heaven placed first in a field of over seventy manuscripts judged by Kristjana Gunnars, Paddy O'Rourke, Greg Simison, Christopher Wiseman and Patricia Young."