Carly Butler is a bisexual Indigenous woman with ancestral roots in Mexico. She spent the first ten years of her life in the US, and was brought to Canada illegally in 1998. She has been a babysitter, a house cleaner, a barista and a birth doula, and now she is a stay-at-home-disability-mom and author. Her writing has appeared in Loose Lips Magazine. She lives with her husband and two children in Langley, BC. Apocalypse Child is her first book.