Bob Armstrong is a novelist and freelance writer from Winnipeg. His novel Prodigies (Five Star/Gale), focusing on three uncannily gifted teens in 1877 Deadwood, won the 2022 Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction in the Manitoba Book Awards and his writing has appeared in literary magazines on both sides of the Medicine Line and in anthologies of comedy, speculative fiction, travel writing and drama. An avid hiker and history buff, he has wandered western trails from south of Tombstone, Arizona, to north of the Yukon Territory’s Tombstone Mountains. His travel misadventures and musings can be found on Substack @wanderingwriterbobarmstrong and at www.bobarmstrong.ca.