Thank you to everyone at Buckrider Books: to Paul Vermeersch for really getting the book, for helping me see it through to its final form and creating the awesome space of possibility that is Buckrider Books; to Noelle Allen for being so incredibly supportive of Wolsak & Wynn authors and doing the hard work that allows books to be made and read. Thank you to Ashley Hisson for copy edits and all else; Michel Vrana for cover design; Jennifer Rawlinson for interior design; sales & marketing; and everyone at Wolsak & Wynn.
My immense gratitude to the Canada Council for the Arts and to the BC Arts Council – whose support of early drafts of this novel gave me the gift of time. Thank you to Banff, for offering me a self-directed residency (and a space in which I could really focus) and the Cap
