Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Family Way (2021), shortlisted for the F.G Bressani Literary Prize, and The Geography of Pluto (2014). His essays and short stories have appeared in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far), Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing and The Globe and Mail. He has also written for several publications, including Elle Canada, Xtra magazine and enRoute magazine, for which he won a National Magazine Award. In 2014, he created the Violet Hour Reading Series & Book Club, which has to date provided a platform for more than 250 LGBTQ writers in Canada. He was president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation from 2018 to 2021 and sat on the literary evaluation committee of the Conseil des arts de Montréal from 2019 to 2022. In 2024, he was awarded the QWF Judy Mappin Community Award. He lives in Montreal.
