About the Author
Johanna Skibsrud
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two previous collections of poetry, I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being and Late Nights With Wild Cowboys; two novels, Quartet for the End of Time and the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Sentimentalists; and the short fiction collection This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Skibsrud and her family divide their time between Tucson and Cape Breton.
The stories in Andrew Forbes' short story collection Lands and Forests (Invisible Publishing) might be described as haunting: stories that dig at the emotional core of women and men who mourn, who discover new passions, who face disappointment, who watch a wildfire consume ... Read more
Jen Neale's debut Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW Press) takes on dark subjects of suicide, PTSD, and environmental calamity balanced with themes of friendship and its curative power for a wildly engaging read.
When you publish a book about a hat or a frog, the cover just kind of follows. But what to do when you're publishing a poetry book about "the very moment of perception"? Wolsak & Wynn publisher Noelle Allen joins us to talk about the design decisions that went into Johanna Skibsrud's ... Read more
Lots to keep you busy this week in literary events: the fall launches of Wolsak & Wynn and Talonbooks, as well as Vancouver Writers' Fest!
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Gaspereau Press of Kentville, Nova Scotia was established in 1997 with the launch of its literary quarterly, The Gaspereau Review, and first three books. Soon partners Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield were publishing eight titles a year and by 2000 they had purchased a printing ... Read more
National Poetry Month will soon be drawing to a close and we intend to finish it out with a few more fantastic Poetry Primer picks. Lucky number fourteen of our established poets is Jim Johnstone. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including his latest, Dog ... Read more
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