Fred Stenson is a Calgary-based writer of fiction, non-fiction and film. In the fall of 2003, his fourth novel, Lightning, will be published by Douglas & McIntyre. In 2002, Thing Feigned or Imagined, a guide to the craft of fiction, was published by Banff Centre Press. The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre, 2000), a novel set in the Canadian fur trade, was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Dublin Award. The novel won three fiction prizes including the inaugural Grant MacEwan Author’s Prize. His other novels are Lonesome Hero and Last One Home. He has three collections of short fiction: Working Without a Laugh Track, Teeth and Three Times Five. He has edited two collections of Alberta writing: Alberta Bound and The Road Home. His scriptwriting credits include The Great March and World of Horses. This is his third year as director of the Wired Writing Studio. He has been on the faculty of several other Banff Centre Writing Studios.