Darcie Friesen Hossack is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Her short story collection, Mennonites Don’t Dance, was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction. Now writing poetry and completing a novel called Stillwater, Friesen Hossack’s writing focuses on issues facing women and children, as well as on spiritual abuse within the home and church. As the Managing Editor of WordCity Monthly, a global online journal for literary activism, she brings together an international community of poets, writers and readers. This is for the purpose of building bridges to understanding and appreciation of all of humanity’s children.