Liz Harmer was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently lives in Southern California. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Hazlitt, Literary Hub, Grain, PRISM international, This Magazine, and elsewhere. She won the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize in 2013 and a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism in 2014. Her first novel, The Amateurs, was published as a New Face of Fiction title with Knopf Canada in 2018. She’s at work on a number of new stories and essays, as well as a second novel.