Ava Homa is author of Echoes from the Other Land which was nominated for the world's largest short story award: 2011 Frank O'Connor International Award. Echoes from the Other Land was also placed 6th in the top ten winners of the CBC Reader's Choice Contest for Giller Prize. Ava's writings have appeared in periodicals such as The Toronto Quarterly, Windsor Review, the Toronto Star, Literary Review of Canada, and Rabble.Ava Homa teaches Creative Writing and English in George Brown College of Toronto. She has been a writer-in-residence at Minden Hill Cultural Centre, Open Book Toronto & Ontario and Historic Joy Kogawa House. For more information please visit www.AvaHoma.com