Cynthia Flood’s most recent book, Red Girl Rat Boy (Biblioasis, 2013) was shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes’ fiction award and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor award, besides appearing on “best of year” lists for Quill & Quire and January Magazine. Earlier collections are The English Stories (Biblioasis, 2009), My Father Took a Cake to France, and The Animals in their Elements. Her work has been selected six times for Best Canadian Stories, and appears often in both print and on-line literary magazines. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.