Susan Olding is the author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays, winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s Readers’ Choice Award for 2010. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies across Canada and the United States, including TNQ, The L.A. Review of Books, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and the Utne Reader, and has won a National Magazine Award, two Edna Awards, and many more. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.