Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the story collection, All the Anxious Girls on Earth (Key Porter), the editor of Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales From Tomorrow (D&M), and creative director of Vancouver Review’s “Blueprint BC Fiction Series.” She has won numerous awards for magazine journalism and a 2007 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her fiction has been widely anthologized, including in The Penguin Book of Canadian Humour, The Penguin Book of Contemporary Women’s Short Stories, and Vancouver Stories (Raincoast), as well as featured in Noah Richler’s This Is My Country… (M&S), and will appear in Best Canadian Stories 2010 and 2011. Zsuzsi’s new collection, Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, will be published in April 2011 by Penguin Books Canada. She lives in Vancouver and is an adjunct professor with UBC’s Optional Residency MFA in Creative Writing.
