Liam Durcan is a Canadian neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and an Assistant Professor at McGill University. He has published three books, A Short Journey by Car (Véhicule Press 2004), Garcia's Heart (McClelland & Stewart 2008), and The Measure of Darkness (Bellevue Literary Press 2016). A Winnipeg native, Durcan also lived in Detroit briefly as a child, but has been at the Montreal Neurological Institute since 1994.