Samantha Bernstein is completing her M.A. in English at University of Toronto and is about to start a PhD at York University. The first parts of Here We Are Among the Living were written as part of her thesis for her first M.A. at York, for which she researched youth movements, epistolary literature and the politics of subjectivity. She has also recently completed a poetry manuscript, Industrial Evolution. Her work has appeared in Exile, Books in Canada, YorkU Magazine, Studio, The Fiddlehead, and the Diaspora Dialogues anthology TOK 3: Writing the New Toronto.