Sivan Slapak lived in Jerusalem for twenty years before returning to Canada in 2013. Since then, her short fiction and essays have been published by The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, and carte blanche and in collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, and has won the Peter Hinchliffe fiction award once and been shortlisted twice. She lives in Montreal, where she works in the arts and culture sector. Here Is Still Here is her first book.