Bianca Lakoseljac is the author of a novel, Summer of the Dancing Bear, a collection of stories, Bridge in the Rain, (Guernica Editions, 2012, 2010), and a book of poetry, Memoirs of a Praying Mantis, 2009. She is the recipient of the Matthew Ahern Award in literature and has taught at Humber College and Ryerson University. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Canadian Woman Studies; and 50+ Poems for Gordon Lightfoot. Stone Woman, a family saga of five women whose lives are bound by a Vietnam War draft dodger (Guernica Editions, 2016), set in Toronto, is her second novel.