Cara Marks is a writer from Vancouver Island, Canada. She writes intimate, darkly comic stories that have been longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize, the 2019 CVC Short Fiction Competition, the 2016 Mogford Food and Drink Writing Prize and others. As part of her PhD on food, empathy and literature, she is writing her first novel, Milkflower, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Grindstone Novel Prize.