Andrew Boden is the author of When We Were Ashes, a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Journey Prize anthology, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Descant. Boden is also the co-editor of Hidden Lives: Coming Out on Mental Illness, a ground-breaking anthology of evocative personal essays. Originally from Cranbrook, BC, Boden now lives in Burnaby, in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The Secret History of My Hometown is his first short story collection.