Elizabeth Haynes’ short story collection Speak Mandarin Not Dialect was a finalist for the Alberta Book Awards. Her writing has been published in literary magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Prism and Room, and a number of anthologies, most recently Shy: an Anthology and Waiting (University of Alberta Press). Her awards include the Western Magazine Award for Fiction, the American Heart Association award for fiction, and the Writers Guild of Alberta Jon Whyte award for non-fiction. She studied writing at the Universities of Victoria and Calgary, and UBC. Elizabeth lives in Calgary, Alberta.