Louise Dumayne lives off-road and off-grid in the remote Yukon wilderness with her husband, Neil, and a retired sled dog called Blaze. She won the Lush Triumphant Short Fiction Award in 2021 with Impact. The Demon Fufu was shortlisted for the Federation of BC Writers Short Fiction Award. Other publishing credits include Deep Pool Bridge (Understorey Magazine, 2021) and The Bear (Words and Women IV, Unthank Books, also Highly Commended, Words and Women Short Story Competition). Spring Break Up was published in Riverside Review (Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture). She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio (Simon Fraser University) and is currently writing a supernatural thriller called Crooked Creek, set in the Yukon in winter.