Tricia Dower was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Having resided in sixteen different towns and cities across North America, Dower now lives and writes in Victoria, British Columbia. With a degree in English literature, she has worked as a teacher and in marketing, advertising, human resources, and corporate communications. Dower’s short fiction has appeared in Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO, Insolent Rudder and Big Muddy. Silent Girl is her first book.