Award-winning Author and Blogger
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Prizes
• The Journey Prize for Long Man the River, 1994
• The Canadian Association of Authors Jubilee Prize for The Uncharted Heart, 2001.
Novels
• A Cry of Bees, Viking Press (New York), 1970
• Broken Road, Exile Editions (Toronto, 2009)
• Surface Rights (Dundurn Press 2013) The Oracle of Cumae (Second Story Press, 2019)
Young Adult
• The Geomancer’s Compass, (Tundra 2012)
Short Story Collections
Constant Fire, Oberon Press, 1995
The Uncharted Heart, Knopf Canada, 2001
Anthologies
The Uncharted Heart, Best American Short Stories of 1999, Houghton-Mifflin, 2000
Discriminatio Spirituum, Voices and Echoes Anthology, Studies in Women and Religion, Vol. 4, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997
Long Man the River, Journey Prize Anthology, McClelland and Stewart ,1994
Long Man the River, Best Canadian Short Stories of 1993, Oberon, 1994
Long Man the River, Young Bloods, Exile Editions, 2001
The Heifer, Best American Short Stories of 2001, Houghton-Mifflin, 2002
The Bockles, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, St. Martin’s Press, 2001
Aquero, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, St. Martin’s Press, 2002
Aquero, Canadian Gothic: Tales of Unease from Pre-Confederation to the Present, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002
Lightning, Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge, Your Scrivener Press, May 2006.
Short Stories
Agnes and True – Canada, July, 2020
Another Chicago Magazine -- The Zoophile, Issue 57, April 2020The Atlantic Monthly, Aquero, December 2002
Blank Spaces -- November Witch, 5,1, September 2020
The New Quarterly -- The Raven Mocker, 13, 3, 1993; Magical Thinking, 11, 1, 1991; The Teddy, 15, 4, 1995; The Fourth Day of July, 16, 4, 1996; Traplines, 17, 2, 1997; Bad Men Who Love Jesus, 86, 2003
Quarry -- Discriminatio Spirituum, 40, 41, 1991
The Antigonish Review -- Moving Violation, 91, 1992; Rivals, 98, 1994; The Babysitter, 128, 2002The Dalhousie Review -- Past Due, 72, 1, 1992; Strays, Summer 1999; Rumours of His Death, Summer 2000; Imposters in Love, Summer 2001
Exile -- Long Man the River, 17,3, 1993; Dancing Sally, 18, 2, 1994; The Wild Boy, 20, 4, 1997; Lightning, 23, 1, 1999; Poison Pen, 25,4, 2002; The Puny Column, 27, 1, 2003; The Spotter, Vol. 35, 4, 2011
The Malahat Review -- The Rose Girl, 112, 1995
Fiddlehead -- The Last Dalliance of Catspaw County, Spring 1996, No. 187; The Sweet Bye 'N Bye, Summer 1997, No. 192
The Capilano Review -- The Lover of Thornton Avenue, 2:26, Winter 1996-1997
The Ontario Review -- The Uncharted Heart, 49, Spring/Summer, 1998; The Prospector's Boot, 50, Spring/Summer issue, 1999Prairie Fire -- The Ice Woman, Winter 1997-1998, Vol. 18, No. 4., (Finalist for Western Magazine Foundation Awards 1999.)
A Room of One’s Own -- Claim to Fame, Fall 1998, Vol. 21, No. 3
On Spec -- Metallica, Spring 1999; The Dream House, Spring 2000; The Oak Secretary, Fall 2003; Alabaster, Summer 2004
Story -- Paper Son, Winter 2000.
Descant -- The Heifer, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 2001: The Gallery, Vol. 33, No. 3, Fall 2002
North Carolina Literary Review -- Wedding Belles, Vol. 13, 2002
Terminus -- The Bargain Hunter, Autumn 2003, Issues 2 &3
The Saranac Review -- The Hatch, Autumn 2018, Issue 14 (forthcoming)