Alison Gadsby, a second-generation Canadian writer, lives in a multigenerational home on Treaty 13 land in Tkaronto. Author of story collection Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026), other short fiction appears in Literary Heist, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, failbetter, and more. Dreams of the Weary, her debut novel, is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press (2028). She holds an MFA from the UBC, and an HBA in English & Creative Writing from York University. She is the host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series, and co-host on HOWL, a literary radio show on CIUT, 89.5 FM. Find out more at www.alisongadsby.ca