Theresa Kishkan lives on the Sechelt Peninsula in British Columbia with her husband, John Pass. She has published 14 books, most recently Euclid's Orchard, a collection of essays about family history, botany, mathematics, and love (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2017). She has been nominated for a number of awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Relit Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and won the 2010 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Prize awarded by The New Quarterly. She runs a small press devoted to the literary novella, Fish Gotta Swim Editions, with her friend Anik See.