Kate Sutherland was born in Dundee, Scotland. She moved to Canada with her family shortly thereafter, and she grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She now lives in Toronto where she is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Kate is the author of two collections of short stories: Summer Reading which won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 1995, and All In Together Girls which was published in 2007 by Thistledown Press. Her first collection of poems, How to Draw a Rhinoceros, is forthcoming from BookThug in the Fall of 2016.