About the Author

Kevin A. Couture grew up in a BC mining town and has spent the last decade waking before dawn to write. The stories in his debut collection, Lost Animal Club, have all appeared in Canadian or American journals. In recent years, he has been nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, and was included in the anthology Coming Attractions. He lives on Vancouver Island with his children, and their Brittany spaniel, who spectacularly defies animal training.

For more information about Kevin A. Couture and Lost Animal Club, visit www.kevinacouture.ca.

Reviews

Praise for Lost Animal Club

"Kevin A. Couture's Lost Animal Club is a polished lens that glimpses adolescent mysteries and the lingering puzzles of addiction and sobriety and healing. These haunting stories are populated by bears and bees, cats and dogs, lost animals and lost children and lost parents, evoking a world both charming and stormy, domestic and animal--and it is animal in the best way."
Mark Anthony Jarman, author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

"The stories in Lost Animal Club do what the best short fiction excels at: shaping loneliness into art and capturing people in extremis. Kevin A. Couture's sharp, muscular prose gives off emotional jolt after emotional jolt, sparking the reader into thinking about what it means to be human."
Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives

"Kevin A. Couture's stories are filled with the hurting and the brave, people who seek redemption in whatever ways they can manage. Lost Animal Club is a compelling, dexterous collection, full of humanity and insight."
Julie Paul, author of The Pull of the Moon

"These are beautiful stories about survival in social wilderness. I loved them! Read this book. Lost Animal Club will find you wherever you are and invite you to come back home."
Sarah Selecky, author of This Cake Is for the Party

"... executed with masterful control..."
Andrew MacDonald, Event

"These stories stuck with me, so consuming that they infiltrated my dreams...."
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