Clea Young’s stories have appeared in Event, Grain, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Room. Her work has been included in The Journey Prize Stories three times, and she has twice been shortlisted for the prize. In 2014, a selection of Young’s stories was featured in the 13 edition of Coming Attractions, Oberon Press’ yearly anthology introducing previously unpublished writers to Canadian readers. Originally from Victoria, B.C., Young moved to Vancouver to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Currently Artistic Associate at the Vancouver Writers Fest, she lives in Vancouver with her husband and son.

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Clea Young’s collection of short stories navigates the whitewater of relationships—familial, romantic and those between friends old and new. These are stories about people you know and people you’ve been: they’re arguing about lamps in IKEA, and drinking gin and tonics on a dock in summer, unemployed and without prospects. But under Young’s astute gaze such charaters are anything but ordinary. With sharp and invigorated prose, she guides us through the shoals and rapids, along the way paying homage to our missteps, our foibles and ultimately to the complicated hearts that comprise a life.