Acknowledgements
This collection would not exist without the generous financial support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
I am profoundly grateful to Samantha Haywood, Paul Vermeersch and Noelle Allen for seeing something in this collection and in me. I am equally grateful to my eagle-eyed and hilarious editor, Jen Sookfong Lee, for “getting it” and pushing me to go deeper. Thank you also to my copy editor, Ashley Hisson, for her unbelievable attention to detail and to Michel Vrana for the gorgeous cover art.
So many fiction writers I admire have touched these pages and helped me along the way – Jessica Westhead, Elyse Friedman, Dennis Bock, Bruce Geddes, Bess Winter, Andrew David MacDonald, Sherwin Tjia, Russell Smith, Suzanne Al
