Margaret Nowaczyk is a pediatrician and a clinical geneticist and a writer. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Prairie Fire, Geist, Examined Life Journal, Broken Pencil, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Grain, Litro US, The Dalhousie Review and others. She co-edited “Polish(ed)”, a Canadian-Polish diaspora short story anthology (Guernica Editions, 2017). Her non-fiction has won the 2018 and 2020 Hamilton Short Works Prizes and the 2020 CNFC/Humber Literary Review contest, and was a finalist for the 2022 National Magazine Awards. “Chasing Zebras” (Wolsak & Wynn, 2021), her memoir about clinical genetics, mental health and writing, won the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Memoir. Her most recent book is “Marrow Memory”, a collection of essays, published in June 2024. She lives in Hamilton, ON, with her husband, one son and a cat.