Steven Mayoff is a full-time writer, born and raised in Montreal, who now lives on Prince Edward Island. His fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada and the U.S., as well as in Ireland, France and Algeria. In 2010, his story collection, "Fatted Calf Blues” won the PEI Book Award for Fiction and his first novel, “Our Lady Of Steerage” will be published in May 2015. He is currently writing the libretto for an opera and working on his first poetry collection, “Red Planet Postcards”. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca.