Deborah Willis’ novel, Girlfriend on Mars, was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, the 2024 Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and The Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Her short story collection, The Dark and Other Love Stories, was also longlisted for the Giller Prize. Her first book, Vanishing and Other Stories, was named a Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2009 and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Willis’ work has also appeared in The Walrus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Lucky Peach, and Zoetrope. She has worked as a bookseller at Munro’s Books in Victoria, as a technical writer, and as a writer-in-residence at Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, MacEwan University, and the University of Calgary. Willis is an editor at Freehand Books and lives in Calgary with her partner, Kris Demeanor, and daughter.
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