Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (forthcoming from Goose Lane Editions),My White Planet,19 Knives,New Orleans Is Sinking,Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel bookIreland’s Eye. His novel,Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. He has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays. He won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, won the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been included inThe Journey Prize Anthology and Best Canadian Stories.