Keith Maillard is the author of 14 novels, including Two Strand River, Gloria, The Clarinet Polka, Difficulty at the Beginning, and most recently, Twin Studies. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Maillard was born and raised in West Virginia and now lives in Vancouver. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer, and a journalist. He teaches at the University of British Columbia. Website: keithmaillard.com. Twitter: @keithmaillard.

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Excerpt from Twin Studies:

• “The blonde woman in the black car was staring at her through their two windshields. It wasn’t just any old black car but an SUV, a small one, and not just black but a gleaming spaceship black—inside, not just a blonde woman but a blonde child, both of them shocked and staring” – In Maisonneuve