Irena Karafilly is an award-winning author of several acclaimed books and of numerous stories, poems, and articles. She has published in literary and mainstream magazines, as well as in The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Her short stories have won Canada's National Magazine Award and the CBC Literary Award. Her latest novel, Arrested Song, recently published in the UK by Legend Press, is a finalist for the QWF 2024 Hugh Maclennan Award for Fiction. She lives in Montreal.