RITA WEST, a happily lapsed librarian, lives Ottawa with a cat and an occasional niece, and gardens in Lanark County with her true love. In 1990 she was a winner in Event's creative non-fiction contest, and in 1991 in the CBC literary competition. Her stories have appeared in Queen's Quarterly and Room of One's Own . This is her first foray into nefarious death. So she says.
Marguerite does freelance writing and editing and is currently working on a novel.
She lives with her husband in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec. Her travelling adventures include three years in England and a spell teaching English in Poland. She's been writing for a long time but has recently started taking it seriously. She volunteers for various cultural organizations, and likes to paint watercolours. In her first published short story, she brings us a whole new perspective on mid-life crisis.