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Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the short fiction collections Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth, the editor of Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, and the creative director of Vancouver Review’s(opens in new tab) Blueprint BC Fiction Series. Her stories have been widely anthologized, and broadcast on CBC and NPR’s Selected Shorts(opens in new tab). Better Living Through Plastic Explosives was shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize.
Zsuzsi is a long-time contributing reviewer for The Globe & Mail, and has appeared on CBC’s Canada Reads(opens in new tab). A former senior editor at the now-defunct Saturday Night, she has received numerous nominations and awards for her magazine journalism, and a 2007 National Magazine Award for fiction. She has been on faculty for the Banff Centre’s Literary Arts(opens in new tab) Programs and has been an adjunct faculty member for UBC’s Optional Residency MFA in Creative Writing(opens in new tab). Zsuzsi lives in Vancouver.