Jason Emde is a teacher, writer, undefeated amateur boxer, University of British Columbia MFA Creative Writing Program graduate, creator and host of the Writers Read Their Early Sh*t podcast, and the author of My Hand’s Tired & My Heart Aches (Kalamalka Press, 2005) and little bit die (forthcoming from Bolero Bird Books, 2023). Focused on roving, expatriation, pilgrimage, loss, and sensual derangement, his work has appeared in Real Travel, The Malahat Review, Soliloquies Anthology, The Watershed Review, and numerous other publications. Jason lives in Japan with his wife, Maho, and their typhoon sons, Joe and Sasha.