About the Author
Christopher Gudgeon
Author
Chris Gudgeon is an author and poet and screenwriter. He's contributed to dozens of periodicals, including Playboy, MAD, National Lampoon, Geist, Event, and Malahat Review. He's written seventeen books, from critically acclaimed fiction like Song of Kosovo and Greetings from the Vodka Sea to celebrated biographies of Stan Rogers and Milton Acorn, to a range of popular history on subjects as varied as sex, sexuality, fishing, and lotteries. Gudgeon has more than 150 professional TV and film credits including creating, writing, and producing Gemini-award-winning series Ghost Trackers and the documentary, The Trick with the Gun. In his varied and spotty career, Gudgeon has worked a variety of jobs across Canada, the United States, and Europe including psychiatric orderly, rent boy, bartender, rock musician, rodeo clown, TV weatherman, and youth outreach worker. Gudgeon, who is bisexual, has been in an open relationship with author/self-help guru Jasper Vander Voorde since 2009. He lives in Los Angeles and British Columbia.
Related Blog Posts
This Week in Lit Events: January 22-28th
Lots of reading series to hit this week, plus our first festival of the year: the SPARKS Literary Festival in St. John's Newfoundland!
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, ... Read more
Top 10: New Words in Our Pride Glossary
It’s Pride weekend this weekend in Toronto: and naturally, we’re preparing by reading some fantastic LGBTQ+ books. We’ve come across some great words and phrases on the way: here are ten for you to include in your own Pride lexicon.
In Review: The Week of May 29th
This week we said goodbye to Short Story Month, gave aspiring authors some advice, and were reminded that Toronto's landscape is more than just concrete and high rises.
In Review: The Week of April 10th
We're eggstatic about the Easter long weekend because our agenda mostly consists of eating chocolate until the bunnies come home, and catching up on our TBR piles. But before we hop off, we rounded up the weekly book news and share our weekend book pick, below.
Poets Resist: Christopher Gudgeon
As a screenwriter, essayist, biographer, and poet, Christopher Gudgeon writes poetry that pulls at you. Today's poem, "Future Tops of America" (from his latest collection Assdeep in Wonder from Anvil Press), paints a near-wholesome picture of a future where those in ... Read more
Poets Resist: National Poetry Month 2017
Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more
In Review: The Week of February 27
This week we've got a punchy-fun book suggestion to hibernate with (it's cooold out there!), and a crafty activity to warm up your feet and your books (because we're always thinking about the books.)
Writer's Block: Christopher Gudgeon
For this edition of Writer's Block, we ask author, poet, and screenwriter Christopher Gudgeon a series of questions about writing, and get a series of responses that made us chuckle, even laugh out loud. We're now even more pumped to read his newly released book The Encyclopedia ... Read more
