George K. Ilsley is the author of the memoir The Home Stretch: A Father, A Son, and All the Things They Never Talked About (forthcoming in 2020), the story collection Random Acts of Hatred, and the novel ManBug. His stories have also appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Selected as a writer in residence at Berton House Writers Retreat in Dawson City, George has won the Lush Triumphant Literary Award for creative non-fiction and for fiction. Originally from Nova Scotia, he now lives in Vancouver.