Greg Bechtel’s debut story collection,Boundary Problems, won the Alberta Book of the Year Award for trade fiction in 2015, and was a finalist for the ReLit Award and the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award. He teaches English Literature, Creative Writing, and Writing Studies at the University of Alberta.

Bechtel will be staying at Berton House from January to March 2020, where he will be working on a novel about amnesia, climate refugees, ghost-possession, and polyamorous relationships set in a future Edmonton.