Sydney Hegele is the author of The Pump (2021), winner of the ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Their work has appeared in Catapult...view moreSydney Hegele is the author of The Pump (2021), winner of the ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Their work has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, and others. Sydney grew up in the Niagara Region in Southern Ontario, and they currently live with their husband and French Bulldog in Toronto, Canada, where they work and worship.view less