Miriam Packer was a playwright and fiction writer. She is the author of Take Me to Coney Island (1993), Piece-Work (1997), and Us Fools Believing (2000), all published by Guernica. She has published widely in journals and anthologies. Packer has her Ph.D. in English literature, and teaches at Dawson College in Montreal. Song for My Father is her first novel. She died in 2010.
