This is Sarah Tolmie's sixth book with Aqueduct Press: others include The Stone Boatmen, nominated for the Crawford Award in 2015, and The Little Animals, winner of the Special Citation at the Philip K Dick Awards in 2020. In addition to publishing short fiction, novellas, and novels with Aqueduct, she has released two novellas with Tor.com, The Fourth Island and All the Horses of Iceland; the latter was listed as one of the top fantasy books of 2022 by The New York Times. She has also written three volumes of poetry for McGill-Queen's University Press; the second one, The Art of Dying, was a finalist for the 2019 Griffin Prize for Poetry. In her other life she is a Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. Her website is sarahtolmie.ca.