Tricia Dower is the author of the story collection, Silent Girl, (Inanna 2008) and the novels Stony River (Penguin Canada 2012) and Becoming Lin (Caitlin Press 2016). She won first place for fiction in The Malahat Review's Open Season Awards in 2010 and first place for creative nonfiction in subTerrain Magazine's 2015 literary awards. Tricia lives and writes in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.