Joanna Cockerline is a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner and the author of the forthcoming novel Still (Porcupine's Quill, Autumn 2025). She has published fiction in journals such as Room, International Human Rights Arts, En Route, and The Fiddlehead, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in traditional, ancestral, unceded Syilx Okanagan Territory of Kelowna, BC, where she teaches literature and creative writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.