Leo Brent Robillard is an award-winning author and educator. His novels include Leaving Wyoming, which was listed in Bartley's Top Five in the Globe and Mail for best first fiction of 2005; Houdini's Shadow, which was translated into Spanish; and Drift which was long-listed for Canada's Relit Award. His most recent novel is The Road To Atlantis, released in September 2015. Robillard's work has also appeared in magazines and journals at home and abroad, including Arc, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, Queen's Quarterly, and Verge. In 2011, he received the Premier's Award for Teacher of the Year in the province of Ontario.