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This book is possible thanks to:
My agent, Denise Bukowski, who knew I would write this book before I did. And thank you, Stacy Small.
Anne Collins at Random House Canada. This was not an easy book to edit. You were not afraid of it. Thank you, Scott Sellers, for connecting this book and Reproduction to readers. Thanks also to others at Random House: Sarah Jackson, Lisa Jager, Deirdre Molina, and John Sweet.
Three Black guys, so different from each other, but all brilliant: Phanuel Antwi, Jean Claude, Myronn Hardy.
The Vancouver Friday crew: Tariq Hussain, Emily Pohl-Weary, Rhea Tregebov, Doretta Lau, Suzanne Andrew, Kevin Chong, Paolo Pietropaulo.
The people who appeared with food when I wasn’t leaving the house: Aaron Rabinowitz for the cobblers, Paul Dhillon for the lasagne and curries. Thank you, Jane Munro, Justin Morris, Maria Melititskaya, Aaron Sikhosana.
The tennis crew: Ted Slingerland, Dave Handler, Ben Cutler.
The three people with whom I share a family name.
Moon who is always there.
Chiayi who is always here.
IAN WILLIAMS was born in Trinidad and raised in Canada. In 2019 he won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his first novel, Reproduction, which was published in Canada, the US, and the UK, and translated into Italian. His poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. Williams holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto where he teaches in the English department after several years as a professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. His third poetry collection, Word Problems, was published by Coach House Press in the fall of 2020. Word Problems won the Raymond Souster award.