DANNY RAMADAN is a Syrian-Canadian author and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was longlisted for Canada Reads and named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. His second novel, The Foghorn Echoes, won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Vancouver Book Award. His memoir, Crooked Teeth, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Evergreen Award. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently lives in Vancouver with his husband.