Madeline Walker is a writer and academic writing instructor at the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. Her first book, The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Auto- biography, 1965-2002, was published in 2011. Her work has also been published in Room, University of Toronto Review, the Journal for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and English Studies in Canada. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and two cats.