Ryszard Dubanski was born to WWII survivors in a displaced persons' camp near Sherwood Forest (yes, of Robin Hood fame). These days he lives in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of Vancouver, works in the Fraser Valley teaching Communications at UCFV -- and obsessively re-lives Winnipeg, where he grew up from age two to twenty-two. Dubanski's publications are various, including prize-winning creative non-fiction, fiction, radio drama, journalism, criticism -- plus a cookbook featuring his much-coveted Vatican Lasagna recipe. One of the Black Teeth stories, "Fat Girl," which tells a stirring tale of love, saints, and pyrogies, has recently been adapted as a feature screenplay.