Heidi Wicks has written for Riddle Fence, Newfoundland Quarterly and The Globe and Mail. Her debut novel, Melt (2020), was featured in the Globe and Mail’s Hot Summer Reads list and received a silver medal IPPY (Independent Publisher) award. She received the 2019 Cox and Palmer Creative Writing Award. She is featured in short fiction collection Hard Ticket and the creative nonfiction collection, Best Kind. She lives in her beloved hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.