Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of three novels, most recently The Bleeds (2018). He was born in Lebanon in 1977, and lived in Kuwait, Greece, and Dubai before moving to Canada in 1988. He published his first novel, Blackbodying, in 2005. His second novel, Niko (2011), won the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was nominated for CBC’s Canada Reads and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Nasrallah’s writing has been noted for its incisive outlook on questions of contemporary migration, politics, and multiculturalism. He is the editor for Esplanade Books, Véhicule Press’s fiction imprint.