Paul Cresey
is a fiction writer based in Victoria, BC. Exit Strategies, a collection of short stories, was published by Freehand Books in May 2023. He has also been published in Grain, Qwerty, The Dalhousie Review, The New Orphic Review, Burning Water, and online at prairiejournal.org. He was the recipient of a Canadian Council for the Arts Grant for New/Emerging Writer in 2020. At one time a touring singer-songwriter, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for Young Performer of the Year in 2008.