Justine Brown was born in Vancouver and grew up in bohemia, living with her mother in a variety of places, including London, Ibiza, New York City, and a Kuper Island, BC commune. A graduate of the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, where she received an M.A. in English Literature, Justine teaches in the Department of English at Langara College, Vancouver. She is the author of All Possible Worlds: Utopian Experiments in British Columbia.