BY RYAN PORTER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALI A YOUSSEF
CHERIE DIMALINE walks into Toronto’s BATL facility with an unhurried swagger, like a gunslinger arriving for a duel. The author of the YA dystopian blockbuster The Marrow Thieves – which, as of press time, had been number one on Bookmanager’s Canadian kids chart for 76 non-consecutive weeks – is here to work on a skill not immediately associated with the CanLit canon: hurling axes.