Alison Gadsby, a second-generation Canadian writer and literary chatterbox, currently living in a multigenerational home on Treaty 13 land in Toronto. Author of story collection Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive (Guernica Editions, 2026), other short fiction appears in Literary Heist, failbetter, Novus Literary Arts, Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Blue Lake Review, and more. Her novel, Dreams of the Weary is forthcoming (Palimpsest Press, 2028). 

She holds an MFA from the UBC, and a degree in English Literature & Creative Writing from York University. She is the host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series, and co-host on the literary radio show, HOWL on CIUT. 

Find out more at www.alisongadsby.ca and www.junctionreads.ca.