Lisa Alward's stories have won the Fiddlehead Prize and the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award and have appeared (twice) in Best Canadian Stories and in The Journey Prize Stories, as well as such journals as The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Exile, and untethered. She grew up in Halifax and worked in literary publishing in Toronto in the late 80s before moving with her family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, where she lives with her husband, John. Her debut collection, Cocktail, published by Biblioasis, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and is long-listed for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.