<p class="biography"><b>Melissa Kuipers</b> was born and raised on an egg farm in Aylmer, Ontario, and she grew up in a tight-knit Dutch-Canadian Christian community. She holds a Masters in English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. She has been published in the <i>Rusty Toque, Grain, Joyland, Ryga, Qwerty</i>, and the<i> Puritan</i>. Melissa lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her husband, Mark, and infant son, Elliott.</p>