KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER is the author of the novels Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner, which was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and the short-story collection Way Up, which won a Danuta Gleed Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, The Walrus, Numéro Cinq, Joyland and Storyville. She won the Sidney Prize for her story “Will You Staunch the Wound?” Kuitenbrouwer lives in Toronto with her family.