JENNIFER MANUEL was the 2017 winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was named A Writer to Watch by the CBC in 2016. Jennifer teaches elementary and high school in the traditional territory of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples, where she coaches the youth basketball team. She also plays goalie in a men's hockey league. Jennifer is the author of Dressed to Play in the Lorimer Sports Stories series. Jennifer lives in Duncan, British Columbia.