David C.C. Bourgeois was born in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and grew up in Port Perry, for which he played hockey, achieving some notable victories, but suffering many more defeats, in towns up and down Ontario’s Highway 401. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and McGill University, his work has been published or shortlisted for awards in several Canadian literary magazines, and in April 2023 Baraka Books published his first novel, Full Fadom Five, which debuted to rave reviews. He now lives in Montreal, where he writes fiction and drama and teaches English Literature at John Abbott College.