HELEN MARSHALL is the World Fantasy Award–winning author of two short story collections and two poetry chapbooks. She obtained a PhD from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and then spent two years completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford investigating literature written during the time of the Black Death. Helen was recently hired as a permanent Lecturer in Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University where she directs the Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. She grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, and now resides in Cambridge, UK. The Migration is her first novel.