About the Author

Hugh Graham has written for the Toronto Star and the Walrus, and his fiction has appeared in Descant, the Antigonish Review, the Fiddlehead, ELQ/Exile Quarterly and New Quarterly. He has twice been short listed and once won the Carter V. Cooper $15,000 Short Fiction Competition, those stories then appearing in CVC1, CVC4, and CVC5. He has published two books, with Exile Editions: Ploughing the Seas, and Where the Sun Don't Shine.

Reviews

Graham excels at writing about the common circumstances of individuals in clear, truthful ways. His prose is like a deep wound wrapped in the gauze that is our shared and common predicament." —Austin Clarke, winner of the Giller, Commonwealth, Trillium and Writers’ Trust prizes

"A truly decisive and impressive collection of stories that breaks away from the contemporary formulas of story writing." —Leon Rooke, author and winner of the Governor General’s Award