RICHARD CUMYN is the author of nine books of literary fiction. A past fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, he has been published widely in Canada in such literary journals as The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Grain, Prism International and Event. He has been shortlisted twice for the ReLit Award, a finalist for a National Magazine Award (essay), and long listed for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His screen adaptation of Susan Kerslake's novel, Penumbra, won a 1998 Linda Joy Media Arts Award. He has taught fiction at the Maritime Writers' Workshop, read his work in the Dalhousie University, St. Jerome's (Waterloo) and Lorenzo reading series and been short-term writer in residence at St. Mary's University. In 2003 and 2004 he mentored emerging writers Ami McKay ( The Birth House, Knopf) and Ryan Turner ( What We're Made Of, Oberon) in the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. He lives in Edmonton.