LOGHAN PAYLOR is a queer, trans writer who lives in Chilliwack, BC. They are the author of the #1 national bestseller The Cure for Drowning (Random House Canada, 2024), which won the 2026 CBC Canada Reads competition and was shortlisted for the 2026 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize: Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes and longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. Loghan is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. They divide their time between teaching, writing, and co-owning a game company.