Sarah Tolmie is the author of the speculative fictions Two Travelers, NoFood, and The Stone Boatman, all published by Aqueduct Press to starred reviews in Publishers Weekly. Her newest novel, The Little Animals, about the Dutch microscopist Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, comes out in May 2019. Her first volume of poetry Trio was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award in 2016. Her second book of poems, The Art of Dying, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2018. A lifelong Le Guin fan, her elegy “Ursula in the Underworld” was published in On Spec in April 2018. She teaches British literature and creative writing at the University of Waterloo as an Associate Professor and is an affiliate researcher with the Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation.