Carol Malyon

Carol Malyon has worked as a nurse, and then in health research, before owning a bookstore and hosting a reading series in the Toronto’s beaches area. She has published the poetry collections, Headstand; Emma’s Dead; and Colville’s People; the short story collections, The Edge of the World and Lovers and Other Strangers; and the novels, If I Knew I’d Tell You; The Adultery Handbook; The Migration of Butterflies; and Cathedral Women; and a children’s picture book, Mixed-up Grandmas. She and bill bissett co-authored Griddle Talk, a year of conversations at the Golden Griddle, where they discussed “love and life and anything else you want.” She is based in Toronto, but has led short story workshops in the Maritimes and North Bay, and has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick.