Maria Meindl’s novel, The Work, was published by Stonehouse Publishing in Fall 2019. She is the author of Outside the Box from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History. Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications including The Literary Review of Canada, Descant and Musicworks, as well as in the anthologies, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die and The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. She has made two radio series, Parent Care, and Remembering Polio for CBC Ideas. Maria is the founder of the Draft Reading Series which specializes in unpublished work by emerging and established writers. She teaches movement in Toronto and runs a lecture/discussion series called The Work: Straight Talk on Craft and Method, about the history of wellness and performer-training methods.