G. A. Grisenthwaite is Nlaka’pamux [Ing-khla-kap-muh], a member of the Lytton First Nation. He was a graphic designer in Vancouver and Kelowna before completing his master’s in English literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor. His stories and poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, FreeFall, Exile Quarterly, ndnCountry, Offset 17, Prism International, and Bawaajigan: Stories of Power. Grisenthwaite’s work has earned a number of prizes, including the 2014 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award for his short story “The Fine Art of Frying Eggs;” his first novel, Home Waltz, published by Palimpsest Press, was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for English Language Fiction and his short story “Splatter Patterns” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize. His new short story collection, published by Freehand Press, is Tales for Late Night Bonfires. G.A. Grisenthwaite lives in Kingsville, Ontario. And we’re thrilled that G.A. Grisenthwaite will be one of the authors featured during BookFest/Festival du Livre Windsor 2023, happening October 12th-15th in Windsor.
*Contains a mention of suicide.
For more information: https://www.gordongrisenthwaite.com/
Available from: https://freehand-books.com/product/tales-for-late-night-bonfires/#tab-description
and your favourite independent bookstore.
More about BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor: https://www.literaryartswindsor.ca/bookfest/