Ten writers from across Canada are featured in this volume that presents the first year of the Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Award in a curated short-story collection. Contemporary storytellers honored with the prize in 2011 include Frank Wescott as he tells of a poet in love; Silvia Moreno-Garcia offering a new take on Mexican folklore; and Ken Strange with a story of conflict between head and heart in a neuroscience lab. The anthology also showcases talented short fiction by Gregory Betts, Hugh Graham, Kristi-Ly Green, Leigh Nash, Richard Van Camp, Rishma Dunlop, and Zoe Stikeman.