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Lucian Childs
BIO
Biography
LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He is a contributing editor of the Lambda Literary finalist, Building Fires in the Snow: a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry. His stories and reviews have appeared in the journals Grain, The Puritan, Plenitude and Prairie Fire, among others. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.
ADDRESS
City: Toronto,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
lchilds2@gmail.com
GENRE
Literary Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
Year
2016
Title
Dreaming Home
Publisher
Biblioasis
Year
2023
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EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
LGBTQI2S
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