Nadia Staikos is the author of Until They Sleep (Guernica Editions, 2025). She lives in Toronto with her two children. Her work has previously appeared in Barrelhouse, Poets & Writers, Lost Balloon, Montréal Writes, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. She is former Prose Editor at Chestnut Review and works for United for Literacy, a national literacy charity.