<p><b>Jessica Hiemstra</b> is an author and poet who is widely published in literary journals. She was the winner of the <i>Malahat Review</i>'s 2010 Open Season Award for Non-Fiction, a finalist for the 2010 Winston Collins/<i>Descant</i> Prize for Best Canadian Poem, and the winner of the 2009 Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival poetry award.</p>