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In this website you’ll find news, a bio, interviews, reviews, and information on what I've been publishing recently and how to buy my books. I will also be posting info on the work of writers I admire, and periodic thoughts on the art and craft of fiction.

Flannery O'Connor described fiction as both canny and uncanny. And I think that is my favorite adage for this most exacting, frustrating and satisfying art. It is a craft -- but it is also a mystery, and the interweaving of these two aspects create, at least for me, the fascination that keeps me going.  

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Featured News

Back to School 

 Excited to be returning to mentor novelists and story writers through SFU's Writers' Studio. This is a unique program created by poet Betsy Warland combining intensive workshops, one-on-ones, deep sessions on craft, and many other aspects of writing. I'll miss the writers I mentored last year. Good luck all of you!

News from Best Canadian Stories: 

For the third year in a row, John Metcalf has chosen one of my stories for Best Canadian Stories anthology, published by Oberon Press. His pick for 2012 is "The War between the Men and the Women."   

A Raid on the Inarticulate: 

Thrilled that Colm Toibin -- author of The Master -- selected my story, "The War Between the Men and the Women," for the April issue of Ploughshares magazine (on sale now in bookstores or online). Ploughshares is routinely ranked as one of the U.S's best literary magazines and has a new guest editor with each issue. "The War Between" will be part of my new collection of stories.

From Colm Toibin's introduction to his issue:

"From...such reticences -- a second of silence, a syllable of speech, a memory from 1985 -- poets and prose writers make a raid on the inarticulate; we take what we need when the time is right. What happens next is what matters."