<p><b>Katie Bickell</b> emigrated from England to northern Alberta in 1990. Her fiction has been published in the <i>Tahoma Literary Review</i> and <i>Alberta Views</I> and her essays have appeared in <i>WestWord Magazine, HERizons Magazine</i>, and on <i>The Temper</i>. Chapters from <i>Always Brave, Sometimes Kind</i> have received the Alberta Literary Award’s Howard O’Hagan for Short Story, the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Emerging Writer Award, and won the <i>Alberta Views</i> Fiction Prize. Katie lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, just outside of Edmonton.</p>