BRENT VAN STAALDUINEN is an award-winning writer from Hamilton. He is the author of the novels BOY, the forthcoming NOTHING BUT LIFE, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, as well as the forthcoming short fiction collection CUT ROAD. His stories have won the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, and the Fiddlehead Fiction Award, and have appeared in The Sycamore Review, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Event, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. A recovering high school English teacher, tree planter, army medic, and radio announcer, Brent now finds himself working for the Hamilton Public Library and helping other writers find their voice.
