SHAYNA DOUGLAS is a Canadian author born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She owes much of her personality to discovering fanfiction at a young age, spending her winters at the rink, and a childhood habit of chasing validation from her English teachers. Now based in Toronto, she writes contemporary sapphic romances set across Canada—the kinds of stories she wishes her younger self could have read—where sapphics get to be messy, driven, complicated, and deeply in love.