Claudia Dey is the author of the novels Heartbreaker and Stunt, and the plays Trout Stanley, The Gwendolyn Poems, and Beaver. Dey’s essays and interviews have appeared in many fine publications including The Believer, Lit Hub, and The Paris Review ("Mothers as Makers of Death"). Dey has also worked as a horror film actress, a cook in lumber camps across northern Canada, and is co-designer of Horses Atelier. She lives in Toronto with her musician husband and their two sons.