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Lori Hahnel is the award-winning author of five books of fiction. Her latest novel, Flicker, was published in the University of Calgary Press’ Brave & Brilliant Series in 2023 and is currently a finalist for the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction in the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Vermin: Stories shortlisted for several awards and won a 2022 Alberta Literary Award. Her other books are the novels Love Minus Zero and After You’ve Gone, and the story collection Nothing Sacred, which was a finalist for an Alberta Literary Award. Her work has been broadcast on CBC Radio and CKUA Radio, and published in The Fiddlehead, Joyland, The Saturday Evening Post, The Hingston & Olsen Short Story Advent Calendar and many other journals and anthologies. She is currently at work on a novel based on the life of the 19th century pianist and composer Clara Schumann.