Gena Ellett lives and writes in Vancouver, BC, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She won the EVENT Nonfiction Contest and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. Her writing has appeared in EVENT, subTerrain, Matador Review, The Rush Magazine, The Malahat Review, and is forthcoming in Slice. She is currently at work on a book of nonfiction.