Shelley Wood’s short stories and essays have appeared in the New Quarterly, CNQ, Room, Bath Flash Fiction, Grain, Causeway Lit, Antigonish Review, carte blanche, Saturday Evening Post and more. Her most recent novel, The Leap Year Gene, was named one of the Globe & Mail’s best fiction books of 2024, and her 2019 debut, The Quintland Sisters, was a #1 Canadian bestseller. A medical journalist by trade, Shelley (she/her) has worked as the director of Global News for WebMD’s Medscape, and as the editorial director for the non-profit Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY. Born in Vancouver, she lives on the traditional, unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan people in Kelowna, British Columbia.

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