Derek Mascarenhas is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program, a finalist and runner up for the Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction, and a nominee for the Marina Nemat Award. His fiction has been published in
The Dalhousie Review,
Cosmonauts Avenue,
Maple Tree Literary Supplement,
The Antigonish Review, and elsewhere. Derek is presently working on a novel, and finding a home for his linked short story collection,
Coconut Dreams. See more at
www.derekmascarenhas.ca.
