Amy Kaler is an Edmonton-based writer and Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She has lived in Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory since 2000. She is the author of Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time, a collection of essays published in 2022. She is also the author of three previous books. Kaler won the Cecile E. Mactaggart Travel Prize for Narrative Writing in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essays in 2021 and longlisted in 2022. Her nonacademic work appears in The New Quarterly, Queens Quarterly, and Spadina Literary Review.

• PrologueCentral Alberta, Somewhere Near RumseyWestboundRetlawOn Fire for the Rest of My LifeRossdale Flats and the Bomb ShelterThe West and Its RuinsSwan HillsWestbound All AlongCampus Saint-JeanThe End of the World and the Ends of the EarthDalumOrphansSt. PaulMy SeventiesStrathcona Science ParkThe Years Before Me, the Years BehindNewbrookAncestors and DescendantsWostok and Spaca MoskalykHome for the Time BeingPackingtownThe Most Important Things Have Already HappenedHoly TransfigurationStanding PoseRowley“Your Cell Will Teach You”Newcastle MineTime ManagementAbbotsfordKeeping TimeRochfort BridgePigeonsPalliser TriangleWho Is That?Bunchberry MeadowsTop Ten CrisesBeaverhill LakeEpilogue: Eastbound AcknowledgementsReferences

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