Mark Foss is an Ottawa-based writer whose journalism and short fiction have appeared in such publications as The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly and Blood and Aphorisms. In 1997 he began work on his first book, a collection of linked stories entitled Kissing the Damned, which was published in 2005 and long-listed in 2006 for the ReLit awards. Kissing the Damned was praised by the Danforth Review, Embassy Magazine and Ottawa Life Magazine and was featured at your 10th anniversary Ottawa Writers Festival in the Fall of 2006. His short stories have also appeared in two anthologies, and a radio drama was aired on CBC New Voices. Spoilers is his first novel.