L.E. Pinto is a researcher and nonfiction author whose work was shortlisted for the Ontario Speakers’ Book Award, and she received a Canadian Governor General’s Gold Medal. Her writing has appeared in the CCPA Monitor, Journal of Thought, Critical Policy Studies, Antistasis, Encounters, and others. Her creative work has appeared in Decomp, HAD, and Sociological Review Magazine's Fictions, among others.