Ian Williams is the author of the novel Reproduction. His previous books are Personals, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize; Not Anyone’s Anything, winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. He holds a Ph.D. in English from University of Toronto, teaches poetry at University of British Columbia, was a Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, and was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC.