Katherine Fawcett was born in Montreal, raised in Calgary, has lived in Japan, and now calls Pemberton, British Columbia home. She began her career as a sports reporter before venturing into freelance journalism and commercial writing. After becoming a mother and turning forty, Katherine could no longer ignore her tendency to flout the boundary between real and imagined and has since turned her hand to fiction. Her short fiction has been published in Wordworks, Event, Freefall, subTerrain, and Other Voices. She teaches music in Whistler, BC, plays violin with the Sea to Sky Orchestra and the fiddle whenever possible.