M. R. Carroll, author of Dead False, has, at various times, been a fruitpicker in England, a farm labourer in Manitoba, a theatre critic and magazine editor in Ottawa, and a teacher in Spain and Zimbabwe. For the past twelve years he has been a book editor in Toronto and Vancouver, where he currently resides. Carroll’s writing has appeared in publications across the country, including The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, The New Quarterly, The University of Toronto Review, and, most recently, in Georgia Straight.