Brandy Ryan was born in London, Ontario and has studied poetry and poetics at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, where she received a PhD in 2008. She collects jobs in order to fund her writing life in Toronto. Pieces of her manuscript, elegy (carry until fall), have appeared in White Wall Review, dear sir, ditch, and Misunderstandings Magazine; elegy was awarded an OAC Works-in-Progress grant. Her next project will involve a foray into the convergent worlds of creative nonfiction and hockey. She likes to hang out in art galleries.