Joe Bongiorno is an author and journalist from Montreal. His fiction and creative nonfiction stories have appeared in places like Canadian Notes & Queries, Event, Exile, Geist, Broken Pencil, Freefall, and The Antigonish Review. He won Event Magazine's 2019 Speculative Writing Contest. His short stories have also been shortlisted for the Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, Prism International's 2024 Jacob Zilber fiction contest as well as the 2018, 2019 and 2024 editions of the Freefall Prose Contest. Joe is currently working on a short story collection.