Claudia Casper is the author of The Mercy Journals, winner of The Phillip K. Dick Award, the bestseller The Reconstruction, and The Continuation of Love by Other Means, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Dropped Threads edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson and Geist Magazine, among others. Her most recent short fiction, “Walt’s Head” was commissioned by SubTerrain Magazine. Claudia teaches Speculative Fiction at Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

Claudia’s TEDx talk: How to Write Like a Writer