Rhonda Waterfall is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University where she was mentored by Stephen Osborne. Along with a short story collection entitled The Only Thing I Have, she has had fiction and non-fiction published in several literary journals such as Geist, Room and Grain. Rhonda was born in Ocean Falls on the west coast of Canada and currently resides in Toronto. The Strait of Anian is her first novel.