PASHA MALLA‘s first collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method, a Globe and Mail and National Post book of the year, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Trillum Book Award. A frequent contributor to The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, and CBS radio, he is also the winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, two National Magazine Awards for humor writing, and has twice had stories included in the Journey Prize anthology.