We Have Never Lived On Earth

Kasia Van Schaik is a South African-Canadian writer, teacher, and literary critic living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. She holds a PhD in Literature and teaches Creative Writing at McGill University.We Have Never Lived On Earth, a linked story collection that explores what it means to come of age in the era of environmental collapse, is her first book of fiction. It was shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize and the ReLit prize.Kasia is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country. She received the Mona Adilman Prize for poetry related to ecological concerns, the Peterson Memorial Fiction Prize, the Quebec Federation’s Short Story Prize, and has been shortlisted and longlisted for the CBC short story and nonfiction prize. Kasia’s writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, PRISM International and more.

• How Will You Prepare for Happiness?Premium GirlHighwaymanHouse on CarbonateThe Peninsula of HappinessA Girl in Nova ScotiaA Girl Called HelsinkiSwimming UprightHow to Be Silent in GermanNotes on a SeparationVisitor to CreteHouseboatYouth OrchestraStingrayCellular MemoryThe CascadesThis Is FineWe Have Never Lived on EarthAn Ounce of CareNotesAcknowledgements

"Full of diffuse longing and hallucinatory memory, these stories shimmer and compel like half-remembered dreams. Van Schaik's poetic linked collection brings the reader on an evocative journey across decades and continents." Saleema Nawaz, author of Songs for the End of the World