Nicola Winstanley is a writer for adults and children. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and is the recipient of the Alvin A. Lee Award for Published Creative Non-Fiction. Nicola's fiction, poetry and comix have been published in the Windsor Review, Geist, the Dalhousie Review, Grain magazine, untethered magazine and Hamilton Arts and Letters, among others. She holds an MA from the University of Auckland, NZ, and an MFA from UBC. Nicola works at Humber College in Toronto and lives in Hamilton, Ontario.