Sonia Saikaley lives in Ottawa, Canada and has previously taught English in Japan. She graduated from the Humber School for Writers and has had her fiction and poetry published in Still Point Arts Quarterly, Stepaway Magazine, The Caterpillar Chronicles, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Things Japanese: A Collection of Short Stories, the anthology Lavandería - A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word, and other publications. Her novella The Lebanese Dishwasher is co-winner of the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest and will be published by Quattro Books in 2012. [Read]