Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three novels, including, most recently, Original Prin, and his fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, and named New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year selections. His fourth novel, Dante’s Indiana, will be published in Fall 2021. He lives in Toronto with his wife Anna and their four daughters and a Weimaraner named Virgil.