Rebecca Babcock is an award-winning writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Alberta and a PhD from Dalhousie University. She often worries about being asked for medical help and having to explain she's not that kind of doctor. She has previously published a short story collection, <i>Every Second Weekend</i>, and her fiction has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and abroad. <i>One Who Has Been Here Before</i> is her first novel.