CEDAR BOWERS's short fiction has been published in Joyland, Taddle Creek, and The Malahat Review. ASTRA, her debut novel, was nominated for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. With her two children, she divides her time between Galiano Island and Victoria, Coast Salish Territory of the Lkwungen speaking people, the unceded territory of W̱SÁNEĆ, Penelakut, Hwlitsum Nations, and the ceded territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation.