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Alison Gadsby is a first generation settler of Scottish ancestry, who currently lives and writes in Tkaronto – the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Wendat, Métis and Haudenosaunee.

Her short fiction appears in Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Coastal Shelf, Blue Lake Review, and many other literary journals in Canada and abroad. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from York University. She is the founder/host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series in the west end of Toronto where she lives in a multigenerational home that currently includes a mother, a husband, a son and ...more

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