Born in Ontario, educated in Montréal, Stephens Gerard Malone currently lives and writes on Canada’s east coast. In 1994, he published his first novel, Endless Bay (Mercury Press) under the pseudonym Laura Fairburn. His second novel, Miss Elva (Random House Canada), followed in 2005 and was short-listed for the Dartmouth Book Award. Malone’s next novel, I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin (Random House Canada) made its debut in May 2008. Big Town (Nimbus Publishing/Vagrant Press) was published in 2011. His latest novel, The History of Rain (Nimbus Publishing/Vagrant Press), was published in the fall of 2021. Rights to his sixth novel about Jumbo the circus elephant have just been sold to Nimbus Publishing/Vagrant Press for publication in 2023. Malone is a past president of WFNS and was on the board of the Halifax Afterwords Literary Festival.