D.W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. He is the recipient of the University of East Anglia's inaugural Man Booker Prize Scholarship - the most prestigious award available to students in the MA program. His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, including The Malahat Review, Grain, and Southword. In 2011 he won the BBC National Short Story Award, along with being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. He lives in London.