Damian Tarnopolsky is the author of Lanzmann and Other Stories, Goya’s Dog, The Defence, and Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, and the Journey Prize, and he won the Voaden Prize for Playwriting in 2019. He teaches at the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab at the University of Toronto, and lives in Toronto.