Joshua Wales is a Toronto-based palliative care physician and writer, with recent work in Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitudes, Grain, The New Quarterly, the Globe and Mail, the New England Journal of Medicine and on the CBC. He won the 2020 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, and his work has been shortlisted for PRISM international’s Jacob Zilber Short Fiction Prize and CV2’s Young Buck Poetry Prize. He is an MFA student at University of British Columbia.