Craig Davidson has written three other books- The Preserve (as Patrick Lestewka), Rust and Bone, and The Fighter. His nonfiction has appeared in Esquire, The Washington Post, Nerve, Salon, Real Fighter, The London Observer, and elsewhere. Currently, he s hanging his hat in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he is the deputy editor of an alt-urban weekly. Saleema Nawaz has published fiction in journals including Prairie Fire, Grain, The New Quarterly, and Prism International and she is an alumnus of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts. a The White Dress, a the final novella in her short story collection Mother Superior, won the inaugural Robert Kroetsch Award for Best Creative Thesis at the University of Manitoba; another of the stories, a My Three Girls, a appeared in the 2008 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize Anthology.
"Praise for The Journey Prize Stories: • ""The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art."" Globe and Mail • ""A quarter century of great work has gone onto the pages of Journey Prize anthologies. Canadian Literature is flat-out lucky to have such an institution."" Alexander MacLeod"