Born and raised in Toronto, Andrew Calderone wrote Borders in the Sand while roaming Central America and the Dominican Republic. His first novel, Thirsty Scholars, was crafted at the Humber School for Writers before writing and co-directing the award-winning films Cold Is My Brother and Exit Interview (CBC). He has studied literature at University College Cork in Ireland, the University of the West Indies in Barbados, York University in Toronto, and is writing his third novel at the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing.