Acknowledgements

This book was made possible in part by financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Trust of Canada RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.

Thank you to the literary journals who’ve published my stories over the years: The Malahat Review, PRISM International, Little Fiction, Riddle Fence, Granta, and Ambit.

Thank you to Sarah MacLachlan, Janie Yoon, Melanie Little, Maria Golikova, and everyone at House of Anansi Press, and to my agent Rachel Letofsky and the Cooke Agency.

Thank you to the faculty and mentors who encouraged me during my years at the University of Victoria, to my many writer friends who read and helped these stories, and to my non-writer friends and family who gave me places and time to write. Special thanks to Lorna Jackson, Cody Klippenstein, and Bradford Werner.