Julie McGonegal is a writer and editor who delights in language that dwells in the intersection of spirituality and social justice. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from McMaster University and has taught immigrant and Indigenous literature at various Ontario universities. Julie is the author of Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009), and co-editor of Literature for Our Times (Rodopi, 2012). She lives with her partner of 25 years and her three children in Barrie, Ontario, on the traditional territory of Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabeg peoples.