Jessica Westhead’s fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, selected for the Journey Prize anthology, and nominated for a National Magazine Award. She is the author of the novel Pulpy & Midge and the short-story collections Things Not to Do and And Also Sharks. Westhead is a creative writing instructor in The Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. Her latest novel, Worry, is forthcoming this fall with HarperCollins Canada.