Ramona Dearing lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her poems and short stories have appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain and Prairie Fire, as well as in Oberon’s Best Canadian Stories (1997, 1998, and 2001) and Coming Attractions (2001). She is a member of the fiction collective, The Burning Rock, and her fiction is represented along with Lisa Moore’s, Michael Winter’s, and Claire Wilkshire’s in the Burning Rock anthology Hearts Larry Broke. She works for CBC Radio.