Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the Giller Prize finalist Better Living through Plastic Explosives and of the widely acclaimed story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth. Her first novel, The Beguiling, was a finalist for the 2020 Writers Trust Fiction Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her fiction has been widely anthologized, read on the CBC and NPR and won National Magazine Awards. She was the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow for Cork, Ireland in 2016. She edited the award-winning fiction anthology Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow and was the founder and director of Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, BC. She is currently completing her third short fiction collection. She lives in Vancouver.