I am tremendously honoured that two of my works are nominated for the 2023 Aurora Awards, Canada’s national literary prize for excellence in speculative fiction, which are voted on by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). My short story “A New Brave World” is a finalist in the Best Short Story category, and my novelette “A Sky and a Heaven” is a finalist in the Best Novelette/Novella category. “A New Brave World” was first published in the anthology Brave New Worlds edited by S.C. Butler and Joshua B. Palmatier (Zombies Need Brains). “A Sky and a Heaven” was first published in my collection Just Like Being There (Springer Nature) and also appeared in the anthology Other Covenants edited by Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum (Ben Yehuda Press).

Voting for the 2023 Aurora Awards begins on June 17 and closes six weeks later on July 29. The awards ceremony will be held online on August 19 starting at 7:00pm EDT and will be hosted by Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson.