K.D. Miller's stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and have been nominated for the Journey Prize and the National Magazine Award for fiction (1997). In 1999 she was a runner-up in the PRISM international short fiction contest. Two collections of her stories have been published -- "A Litany in Time of Plague" (PQL 1994), and "Give Me Your Answer" (PQL 1999) -- with the latter being short-listed for the Upper Canada Brewing Company's inaugural Writers' Craft Award. A