Growing up in a co-operative housing project on the tip of Vancouver Island, Buffy spent most of her childhood running wild on beaches with gangs of kids or spying on adults from up trees.

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After more than a decade of living abroad— in Germany, Argentina, and various parts of the US— she has decided to settle for a while on a small farm on Salt Spring Island. When not attempting to farm, she teaches creative writing, works at the local cat shelter, and runs a small business making repurposed leather handbags.

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Buffy Cram’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in multiple literary publications on both sides of the border as well as in the best-selling anthology, Darwin’s Bastards: Stories From Tomorrow. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has attended residencies at Hedgebrook and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has been a fiction finalist for the Western Magazine Awards, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won a National Magazine Award for her non-fiction. Her first book, Radio Belly, was published in 2012 by Douglas & McIntyre.