Sharon Kirsch is the author of THE SMALLEST OBJECTIVE (New Star Books, 2020) and WHAT SPECIES OF CREATURES (2008), a book of creative non-fiction about first encounters between early settlers to North America and unfamiliar "beasts." A writer and an editor, she has published fiction, narrative non-fiction, and journalism, most recently in subTerrain and Room magazines. Sharon Kirsch is originally from Montreal and has lived in the US and the UK, the latter as a Commonwealth Scholar for postgraduate study in Middle English literature. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program. She currently is based in Toronto.