Su J  Sokol is a social rights activist, a free-lance editor and workshop leader, and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. Xe is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum, which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Run J Run, and Zee, a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol's short fiction and essays have appeared or are upcoming in various magazines and anthologies.