Jennifer Quist is a novelist, writer, critic, and scholar working from the Edmonton, Alberta area. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Alberta where she now lectures in English and Creative Writing. All three of her novels are published by Linda Leith Publishing of Montreal. They are Love Letters of the Angels of Death (2013), Sistering (2015), and The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner (2018). Her scholarly book, titled Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy: Daoism and Decentering the Monolingual Workshop is published by Bloomsbury Academic (2025). She has been recognized with a 2014 Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Emerging Artist Award, a place on the 2015 Dublin International IMPAC Literary Award long-list, as the AML’s best novel of 2015, among other honors. Look for more of her non-fiction and critical work in New Left Review, New Writing, The Puritan, The Awl, CBC Radio, The Globe and Mail, and other places.