Kevin Hardcastle is a fiction writer from Simcoe County, Ontario. He studied writing at the University of Toronto and at Cardiff University. Hardcastle’s debut collection, Debris, won the Trillium Book Award, the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary award, and was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Debris was named a Quill & Quire book of the year. His novel, In the Cage, was released to wide acclaim in fall 2017. It was named a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year. In summer/fall 2018, the French language translation, Dans la Cage, was published by Éditions Albin Michel. In summer 2019, the German language translation was published by Polar Verlag. Hardcastle was a finalist for the 24th annual Journey Prize in 2012, and his short stories have been widely published in Canada and the US, and anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories 24 & 26, Best Canadian Stories 15, and Internazionale. Find Hardcastle here: https://twitter.com/KHardcase https://kevinmhardcastle.com/ https://instagram.com/khardcase/