Melissa Carroll is a writer whose recent publications can be found in The Globe and Mail and Rip Tides: New Island Fiction, which was nominated for the Atlantic Book Awards and was the recipient of the Island Book Award for Fiction, 2014. She graduated with a PhD in English and Cultural Studies in 2013, and was long-listed for Prism International’s Creative Non-Fiction prize, 2015. She currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.