Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He studied at York University and the University of Toronto before co-founding Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre dedicated to 2SLGBTQ+ drama. Author of eight previous novels, more than thirty plays, three volumes of poetry, and three works of non-fiction, he has been awarded the Margo Bindhardt Award, three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, the Silver Ticket Award, and the ReLit Award (for his fourth novel, An English Gentleman (Cormorant Books)).