Ten writers from across Canada are featured in this volume that presents
the first year of the Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Award in a curated
short-story collection. Contemporary storytellers honored with the prize
in 2011 include Frank Wescott as he tells of a poet in love; Silvia
Moreno-Garcia offering a new take on Mexican folklore; and Ken Strange
with a story of conflict between head and heart in a neuroscience lab.
The anthology also showcases talented short fiction by Gregory Betts,
Hugh Graham, Kristi-Ly Green, Leigh Nash, Richard Van Camp, Rishma
Dunlop, and Zoe Stikeman.