Mireille Silcoff won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for short fiction for her debut collection Chez l’Arabe, which was also shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature. She has authored three books of nonfiction. Silcoff was a lead columnist with the National Post, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and the founding editor of Guilt & Pleasure. She lives in Montreal.