Ilana Stanger-Ross received her M.A. in fiction in 2003. Her thesis was titled Sima’s Undergarments For Women. She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation grant for emerging artists, as well as a residency grant from the Ragdale Foundation. Her stories have appeared in Lilith Magazine, Red Rock Review, killingthebuddha.com, the anthology  My Wedding Dress: True-Life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears and Tulle, and The Bellevue Review. She lives in Canada.