Robert Majzels was born in Montréal and holds a Canadian passport, but he'll be damned if he'll stand up for anybody's national anthem. kHarLamOv's aNkLe is his fifth novel. He has also published a play, a book of poetry (with Claire Huot), a number of translations, including five novels by the Acadian writer France Daigle (one of which was awarded a Governor General's Award), and, with Erín Moure, a number of books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. For seven lean years, he was an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, until he walked away in 2015. He now lives somewhere on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, where he writes from time to time, and tries to think otherwise.