Sharon Bala’s debut novel, The Boat People—the story of a refugee’s desperate bid for freedom—is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday US (January 2018). She is a member of The Port Authority, a St. John’s writing group and her short fiction has been published, in: Grain, PRISM international, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Room, Riddle Fence, and in a collection called Racket (Breakwater Books 2015). Visit her at: sharonbala.com. Photo by Nadra Ginting.