Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University; lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; and has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories (winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award), and most recently, Ghost Geographies: Fictions. Tamas has published over seventy short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta, and won an O Henry Prize in 2011, and the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014.