Sydney Hegele (formally Sydney Warner Brooman) is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021). They are the winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their poetry chapbook The Last Thing I Will See Before I Die is forthcoming from 845 Press in 2022. Sydney is also a Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus (2021), and they have recent work published in Catapult and Electric Literature. They live with their Fiancé and French Bulldog in Toronto, Canada.