Greg Kearney | |
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Born | Kenora, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | novelist, short story writer, playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | Pretty, The Desperates |
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for Xtra! from 1999 to 2005, [1] and published his debut short story collection Mommy Daddy Baby in 2004. [2]
Born in Kenora, Ontario, [3] he is based in Toronto, where he studied theatre at York University. [3]
He was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2009, [4] and his second short story collection Pretty, published in 2011, won a ReLit Award in the short fiction category in 2012. [5]
His first novel, The Desperates, was published by Cormorant Books in 2013. [6]
He has also written several short plays for Buddies in Bad Times' annual Rhubarb Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille, [7] including Fruits and Crosses, Margot and the Great Big Plate, The Cry Sisters, The Betty Dean Fanzine, (555) 555 5555 [8] and Cancun. [9] Cancun appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2006, alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman. [10]
Greg Kearney | |
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Born | Kenora, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | novelist, short story writer, playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | Pretty, The Desperates |
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for Xtra! from 1999 to 2005, [1] and published his debut short story collection Mommy Daddy Baby in 2004. [2]
Born in Kenora, Ontario, [3] he is based in Toronto, where he studied theatre at York University. [3]
He was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2009, [4] and his second short story collection Pretty, published in 2011, won a ReLit Award in the short fiction category in 2012. [5]
His first novel, The Desperates, was published by Cormorant Books in 2013. [6]
He has also written several short plays for Buddies in Bad Times' annual Rhubarb Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille, [7] including Fruits and Crosses, Margot and the Great Big Plate, The Cry Sisters, The Betty Dean Fanzine, (555) 555 5555 [8] and Cancun. [9] Cancun appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2006, alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman. [10]