Jennifer Duncan is a fifth generation Torontonian. Her fiction has appeared in "Prairie Fire, Matrix, CV2, " and "Blood & Aphorisms, " and she is currently completing her first novel. "Sanctuary and Other Stories" won the David McKeen Prize for best Creative Writing thesis at Concordia University in 1998. The book was also shortlisted in 2000 for both the Toronto Book Awards and the Upper Canada Brewing Short Fiction Award.