Fiction writer. Cat enthusiast. Fan of Danish television. My short story collection, The Reverse Cowgirl, was published October 2011 by Freehand Books. Available at your favourite book store or Internet retailer.
On the one hand: resolutely anonymous animal researchers, Wall Street CEOs, climate change deniers, agricultural companies poisoning the land, cowardly cruise ship captains, white supremacists murdering Sikhs in a place of peace, Mexican drug cartels, Syrian government forces, Japanese whalers, Keystone pipeline advocates, smug Hollywood crap merchants, property developers, Sarah Palin and her multifarious acolytes, and British Petroleum and its apologists and PR hacks.
On the other: the SPCA and PETA, the Occupy movement, Greenpeace and Forest Ethics, Food Inc., the Coast Guard, the Brady Campaign, the Sea Shepherd, Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins and anyone else who’s tried to restore sanity to the public debate, Aung San Suu Kyi, our Olympic strivers, Louie and Luther and Mad Men and Justified and Homeland, and the magnificent eggheads who figured out a way to drop the Curiosity on Mars.
It’s amazing what humans can do when we’re not doing something awful.
From the January/February issue of Alberta Views:
On December 2, 2011, I was lucky enough to launch The Reverse Cowgirl in London, Ontario, alongside fellow London native Kathryn Mockler, whose book, Onion Man (Tightrope Books), is a must-read. Our co-reader was Londoner Christine Walde, who recently launched her own excellent chapbook of poetry called The Black Car (Baseline Press). A great big thanks to everyone at Forest City Gallery for organizing a truly awesome event. I was impressed.
The photos above were taken by FCG volunteer Harman, reposted here by kind permission; the paintings on the walls are by Ian Mclean, and the photos are by Colin Carney.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to FCG, Kathryn, Christine, and everyone who came to help us celebrate.