Jumping Off is Laura Cutlers second published collection of short stories. Her first, Out of Her Backpack, was released last year by Coteau Books. Cutlers stories have also been published in anthologies, including the North (Vancouver) Shore Writers Association Millennium Anthology, and the Indigo Books/Henkell Trocken What the Henkell Happened Here. She has traveled on six continents, and has had careers as a hotel manager and an RCMP officer. Cutler currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she teaches English as a Second Language and writes.