ALISSA YORK has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Winnipeg with her husband. She is the winner of the 1999 Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her first collection of stories, Any Given Power, won the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. Film rights to three connected stories from the collection have been optioned by Buffalo Gal Pictures. In 2001, Alissa won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.