Zsuzsi Gartner is author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and of the acclaimed story collection All the Anxious Girls on Earth. Her first novel, The Beguiling, was a finalist for the 2020 Writers Trust Fiction Prize. She was the inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow for Cork, Ireland, in 2016 and has been on the faculty of UBC's Optional Residency Creative Writing MFA and various Banff Centre Literary Residencies. She is also the editor of the award-winning fiction anthology Darwin's Bastards, and former fiction editor of Vancouver Review.