Sarmishta Subramanian has been an editor at Saturday Night, The Walrus, National Post, Chatelaine, the Toronto Star, and Maclean's, where she remains an editor-at-large. She has also produced radio documentaries for CBC's The Sunday Edition. She was the editor in chief of the Literary Review of Canada from 2016 to 2018.

The twelfth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country.