Patricia Stone was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario and has lived across Canada in Toronto, London, Vancouver, Montreal and Peterborough. She has also travelled widely in Britain, France, Italy, Hawaii, and the United States. Stone's stories have been widely published in periodicals for many years and her first collection of short stories, "Close Calls," was published by Cormorant Books in 1991. Stone holds an M.A. in English Literature, as well as an M.A. in Creative Writing. She currently resides in Peterborough, where she teaches Creative Writing, Canadian Literature, and Communications a...