Laurence Miall is a Montreal-based writer who spent his childhood in England before immigrating to Edmonton, Alberta, at the age of 14. He has contributed to the Edmonton Journal and his short stories have been finalists in the Summer Literary Awards contest and Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. His most recent publications are the novel, Blind Spot (NeWest Press) and the short story "The City of Magnitogorsk" (Cosmonauts Avenue). Miall is the co-editor of carte blanche, the official publication of the Quebec Writers' Federation.