About the editor

Andrew Steinmetz became the editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press, in 2002. He is the author of a memoir, Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk and two collections of poetry, Histories and Hurt Thyself. Wardlife was shortlisted for the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction as well as for the 2000 Quebec Writers Federation (QWF) First Book Award and Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction. Histories was shortlisted for the 2001 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His novel, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, was published in fall, 2008.