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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jessica Westhead’s fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for the Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her stories have appeared in major literary journals in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., including Hazlitt, The New Quarterly, Maisonneuve, Indiana Review, and Hamish Hamilton’s Five Dials. Her first novel Pulpy & Midge was nominated for the ReLit Award. Her critically acclaimed short story collection And Also Sharks was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize.