Lori Sebastianutti is a writer and teacher from Stoney Creek, Ontario. Her essays have been published in Canadian and American journals, including The Hamilton Review of Books, The Humber Literary Review, The New Quarterly, Nurture, Porcupine Literary, Serotonin Poetry, and Broadview Magazine, among others. Her award-winning essay “Cutting Ties and Letting Go” is forthcoming in An Anthology of Canadian Birth Stories, published by Praeclarus Press.