Pearl Good­man was born, raised, and resides in Toron­to, Cana­da. After grad­u­at­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, she taught high school Eng­lish and Dra­mat­ic Arts. Then she chose to train as a psy­chother­a­pist and has now been in pri­vate prac­tice for the past ten years. Words and the human con­di­tion have always been her pas­sions. Per­il is her first pub­lished work.