About the Author
Christopher Gudgeon
Author
Christopher Gudgeon is an author, poet, and screenwriter. He's written eighteen books, from critically acclaimed fiction and poetry like Song of Kosovo, Greetings from the Vodka Sea, and Assdeep in Wonder, to celebrated biographies of Stan Rogers and Milton Acorn, to popular history on subjects as varied as sex, fishing, and lotteries. He also created and co-produced the award-winning paranormal reality series Ghost Trackers and co-scripted and starred in the film The Trick with the Gun. Gudgeon has worked as a psychiatric orderly, rent boy, bartender, rock musician, TV weatherman, bible salesman, radio sportscaster and rodeo clown. Gudgeon has been in an open marriage with Danish rock star guru Jasper Vander Voorde since 2009. They divide their time between the wilds of British Columbia and the wilder wilds of Los Angeles.
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