Chapter 3
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A collection so long in the works has debts too numerous to properly repay, but hopefully these thanks will provide a start. First off, thanks to the Toronto Arts Council for financial support during the completion of this collection. Also, versions of many of these stories have appeared elsewhere, and I would like to thank the editors of Monday Magazine, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Eleven Eleven: Journal of Literature and Art and the Dinosaur p**n anthology. Your confidence and editorial insight are much appreciated.
I would like to thank Noelle Allen and everyone at Wolsak and Wynn. A very special thanks has to go to Paul Vermeersch, not only for the editorial guidance, but for trusting this work enough to allow it to help launch Buckrider Books, for which I am incredibly honoured.
I’d like to thank my peers and instructors in the writing departments of the University of Victoria and the University of Guelph. I feel ludicrously lucky to have had some wonderful teachers over the course of my life who have encouraged my writing habit and have had both indirect and direct influences on the writing and shaping of these stories. I would like to specifically thank Angela Griffin, Jill Fredericks, Heather Stephens, Jack Hodgins, Lorna Jackson, Bill Gaston, Michael Winter and Russell Smith.
I would like to thank my friends – from the literary community or otherwise – for the encouragement and for all the life experiences that inform my writing. I’m so grateful for having you all in my life, and I also feel so lucky to have too many to be named here. I would also like to thank my family and especially my mother, Judy Miller, for being so incredibly supportive of this path that I chose at such a young age. Your support and encouragement has meant the world to me and has guided me to this point. And finally, thank you, Jan Dawson, my partner in life and crime (IMTLY!). Thanks for absolutely everything, but most importantly for being so close beside me through it all.
- Writer
