BRIAN KAUFMAN has been active in the publishing community as a writer, editor, and publisher for over thirty years. Mr. Kaufman is the founder of Anvil Press and subTerrain magazine and has been the recipient of the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for his “significant contribution to Vancouver’s arts and cultural community.” He writes fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama. He lives in what is called “Vancouver” on the ancestral and unceded land of the Coast Salish people. Cascadia Subduction Shift is his debut collection of fiction.