Aley Waterman is a creative writer and English Literature instructor at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. She graduated from the University of Toronto MA in the Field of Creative Writing during the pandemic. Her first novel, Mudflowers, was published by the Dundurn Press Literary Imprint Rare Machines in the Fall of 2023. She also published reviews, poetry, short fiction,
and non-fiction in The Brooklyn Review, Trampoline Hall Podcast, Border Crossings Magazine, Riddle Fence, Bad Nudes, Horseshoe Literary Magazine, The Secret Sex Anthology, Hart House Review, NLS, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her first novella and her second novel with funding from ArtsNL.