Nicole Baute is an expatriate Canadian living in India, where she writes short fiction and essays. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Eclectica Magazine, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing in the online school Story is a State of Mind and works as a writing coach at nicolebaute.com. In Can Serrat she will be working on her linked short story collection, You Will Be Extraordinary, and a chapbook of prose poems about life in India.