Writing

Linked story collection:

Individually published stories:

  • Bone Music,Electric Literature, March 2020
  • Letter of Apology,” Granta, Nov 2018; selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019
  • Unsound,” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Aug 2018
  • Novostroïka,” The Atlantic, Dec 2016; selected for The Best American Short Stories 2017
  • Subject Winifred,” The Malahat Review, April 2016; selected for The Journey Prize Stories 29
  • Uta’s Escape,” Tin House Flash Fridays and The Guardian, March 2016; set to music by Jennifer Butler & premiered by musica intima vocal ensemble in March 2017
  • Methodology of Grace,” The New Quarterly, July 2015

Libretti & Texts:

  • Plaything (chamber opera), music by Anna Pidgorna, developed by Musique 3 Femmes; world premiere in October 2022 at ufaFabrik Cultural Center (Berlin); Canadian premiere in November 2022 by Opera McGill
  • Dear Agony Aunt (song cycle in progress), music by Shelley Marwood
  • Our Trudy (chamber opera), music by Anna Pidgorna, commissioned by Ad Astra Music Festival, premiered June 2021
  • Lost Operas of Mozart (theatrical interludes), premiered by City Opera Vancouver in October 2016 at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC
  • Watch the Hound (chamber opera), music by Stefan Hintersteininger; William George, tenor, Catherine Laub, soprano, with ERATO Ensemble; premiered March 2015 at Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, BC
  • Selfie (art song), music by Shelley Marwood; Phoebe MacRae, soprano, Marguerite Witvoet, piano; premiered June 2014 during Songfire Festival in Vancouver, BC; performances in March & August 2016 in Toronto, Halifax & Philadelphia as part of Crossing Borders: Realities Blurred tour with Maureen Batt, soprano, Cheryl Duvall, piano
  • Wanted: Your Spare Toe (art song), music by Arturo Fernandez; William George, tenor, Corey Hamm, piano; premiered June 2014 during Songfire Festival in Vancouver, BC

Non-fiction

Translation

Awards & Recognition

  • Winner, Shevchenko Foundation Kobzar Book Award (2022, for Good Citizens Need Not Fear)
  • Finalist, Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize (2020, for Good Citizens)
  • Winner, Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes (2020)
  • Winner, National Magazine Award for Fiction (2019, for “Unsound,” McSweeney’s)
  • Winner, RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (2018, for “The Ermine Coat”)
  • Winner, Keene Prize in Literature (2018, for “Bone Music”)
  • Finalist, Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing (2018, for “The Ermine Coat”)
  • Winner, Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing (2017, for “Unsound”)
  • Longlist, The Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize (2017, for “Subject Winifred”)
  • High Commendation, BBC World Drama Radio Playwriting Competition (2016)
  • Finalist, The Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition (2013 & 2016)
  • Finalist, Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2015, for “Novostroïka”)
  • Finalist, New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest (2015)
  • Finalist, The New Quarterly Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (2014)