Brent Hayward was born in London, England, and grew up in Montreal. His short fiction has appeared in various publications, including OnSpec, ChiZine, Horizons SF, Tesseract 14, and the first of the Chilling Tales anthologies. In 2006, his story Phallex Comes Out (ChiZine) was nominated for a Story South award for best on-line fiction of that year. In 2008, his first novel, Filaria, was published by CZP. Among other great reviews, Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred write up, calling Filaria 'powerful' and 'beautifully written'. His second novel, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter, also got a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was short-listed for the 2012 CBC Bookie Awards. Brent has a BA in Creative Writing. He graduated from the Clarion SF workshop in 1995. For a few years he lived in Poland with his family but is now back in Canada. By day, he works in the aerospace field. His third novel, Head Full of Mountains, has just been published. He can be reached through his website, brenthayward.com.