Teri Vlassopoulos is the author of the award-nominated short story collection, "Bats or Swallows" (2010), and a new novel, "Escape Plans" (2015). Her fiction has appeared in Room Magazine, Joyland, Little Fiction, and various other North American journals. She is the cookbook columnist for Bookslut, and has had non-fiction published at The Toast, The Millions and the Rumpus. She lives in Toronto.