Caitlin Galway is a novelist and short fiction writer whose work can be classified as literary realism, surrealism, and magical realism. A Song for Wildcats, her new short story collection (a most anticipated book in both The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star), is forthcoming from Dundurn Press in May, and her debut novel Bonavere Howl was a spring pick by The Globe and Mail. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories 2025, EVENT, The Ex-Puritan as the winner of the 2020 Morton Prize (judged by Pasha Malla), House of Anansi’s The Broken Social Scene Story Project (selected by musician Feist), Exile Editions and Gloria Vanderbilt’s Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Volume Six (selected by Gloria Vanderbilt), on CBC Books as the winner of the 2011 Stranger than Fiction Contest (judged by Heather O'Neill), and in Riddle Fence as the 2011 Short Story Contest winner. Her novella Blackbird  was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2010 Fiction Open Contest. She has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.