Raised in Winnipeg, and a graduate of UBC's MFA Writing program and Carleton's journalism school, Steve Noyes has published six books of poetry and fiction, and has published more than 100 poems, stories and book reviews. It is Just That Your House is So Far Away is his first novel. His writing appears regularly in such magazines and newspapers as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Event, The Globe and Mail, Queen's Quarterly, and the Vancouver Sun. He has travelled extensively across China and over the past decade has worked and studied in Beijing, Shanghai, Taibei, Qingdao, and a little town north of Beijing.