Shana Ross is a newcomer to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty 6 Territory.  Qui transtulit sustinet.  Her work has recently appeared in Great Weather for MEDIA, Ninth Letter, Grain, Literary Review of Canada and more. She is two years into a project of befriending the neighborhood magpies.  Just in case. She works hard to keep things alive: a husband, son, three cats, several houseplants, a vintage sourdough colony, and hope – always, hope.  She holds two degrees from Yale and occasionally moonlights as a diary for business students at her alma mater.