Arley McNeney is a member of the Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team, which won bronze at the Paralympics and gold at the 2002 and 2006 World Championships. She has been published in literary journals at the University of Toronto, and the University of Victoria and won the Mocambo Café Poetry Prize. She currently divides her time between her home in New Westminster, BC and Champaign-Urbana Illinois, where she is working on her graduate degree in Creative Writing.