Sarah Tolmie is the author of the Tordotom novella The Fourth Island, the poetry collections Check and The Art of Dying, the 120-sonnet sequence Trio, and the chapbook Sonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems. She has also published the novels The Little Animals and The Stone Boatmen, as well as the short fiction collections Two Travelers and NoFood. She is a medievalist trained at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is a Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.