Tricia Dower was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and educated at Gettysburg College. She moved to Canada in 1981. Her short fiction has appeared in Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Hemispheres, Cicada, Big Muddy, and NEO. Her short-story collection, Silent Girl, was published by Inanna in 2008. She lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. StonyRiver is her first novel.