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Sarah Tolmie, aÌýProfessor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, is a traditionally-trained, philologically-oriented medievalist with a master's degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in historiography, visionary poetry and embodiment. She has published articles on Middle English and Scots literature, as well as on Langland's Piers Plowman.Ìý

A poet and speculative fictionÌý, Sarah hasÌýauthored multiple works includingÌýThe Art of Dying (2018); the 120-sonnet sequenceÌýTrio (2015); novelsÌýThe Little Animals (2019)and The Stone BoatmenÌý(2014); and short fiction collectionsÌý¶Ù¾±²õ±ð²¹²õ±ð (2020), Two Travelers (2016), and NoFood (2014). In 2020Ìýshe published three books, The New Weird short fiction collection Disease, the poetry collectionÌýCheck, and the novellaÌýThe Fourth Island. HerÌýnewest work All the Horses of IcelandÌýis anticipated in 2022.

The Little AnimalsÌýearned the Special Citation at the 2020 Philip K Dick Awards,ÌýThe Art of DyingÌýwas a finalist for the 2018 Griffin Prize, andÌýTrioÌýwas shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Award in 2016. The Stone Boatmen wasÌýshortlisted for the Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in 2015. Her creative work has also appeared inÌýYear’s Best CanadianÌýPoetry in English,ÌýYear’s Best Weird Fiction,ÌýThe New Quarterly,ÌýGrain,ÌýStrange Horizons,ÌýOn Spec, TheMalahatReviewÌýandÌýThe Canadian Literary Review.