Born in Calgary, Alberta but raised an Island girl, P.C. Vandall grew up on Gabriola Island and resides there now with her husband two children. She was educated at Vancouver Island University where she studied Creative writing and earned the Myrtle Bergren award for Creative writing. She then travelled to the Middle East to teach in Kuwait and on her return, married and began raising her family. Although this is her first full length collection, she has two previous chapbooks, “Woodwinds,? (Lipstick Press) “Something from Nothing,? (Writing Knights Press) as well as a small book of poems “Matrimonial Cake? (Red Dashboard). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines in Canada as well as England, Ireland, the United States, India, and Australia. Her poems have been shortlisted for prizes, nominated for pushcarts, and featured on radio. She has been a guest poet at various venues, is an active member of the Gabriola Poetry Society and runs a small poetry group online. When Pamela is not writing, she's sleeping. She believes sleep is death without the commitment.