Elyse Friedman

Elyse Friedman (ON, Canada) is the author of Long Story Short, Waking Beauty and Then Again. Her fiction has won a Gold National Magazine Award and has been short-listed for the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Anthology and Darwin’s Bastards. In addition to being an author, Friedman has had two feature films produced and has two more, The Relationship Experiment and A Bright Tragic Thing, in development. At Wordfest, she presents her most recent book, The Answer to Everything, about a gifted, but perpetually broke artist who starts a cult to make money. Friedman currently resides in Toronto.