If you have ever visited a big-city aquarium, you may have marvelled at the luminescent jellyfish undulating in their blue-lit tanks like dreamlike cupcakes. Or perhaps you moved quickly to see more exciting creatures. Like, say, stingrays. Or sharks. Or anacondas. That would be a pity. Because you would have missed a chance to be enlightened…
Irina Kovalyova
Irina Kovalyova teaches molecular biology and biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. Her debut collection of short stories, Specimen, won the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the literary fiction category.