Lesley Trites is the author of the story collection A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream (May 2017) and the poetry collection echoic mimic (2011). Her fiction has recently appeared in carte blanche, Tupelo Quarterly, and Salut King Kong: New English Writing from Quebec. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Maisonneuve, and AFAR, among others. Winner of the 2016 3Macs carte blanche Prize, she lives in Montreal.