Connie L. Cook lives in southern Ontario and is a retired social worker. She has been previously published in magazines such as Our Canada and Rural Route, as well as writing a weekly column for The Dundalk Herald. She was a finalist in the Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story (2015) and the The Mariposa Writers Group Story competition. Her work has been published in several anthologies of short stories and in online magazines such as CommuterLit and Every Day Fiction.