Lorna Jackson
Lorna Jackson spent nine years as a musician on the bar circuit in British Columbia before settling on Southern Vancouver Island. She has been a columnist for Quill and Quire magazine, a contributor to the Georgia Straight, and serves on the editorial board of Malahat Review. She is the author of the acclaimed story collection, Dressing for Hope, and her writing has appeared in such magazines as Brick, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and Canadian Fiction Magazine. She teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria and lives in Metchosin.
A Game to Play on the Tracks
A Game to Play on the Tracks is the story of booze-loose and too-smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new baby, some unhealed hurts, and a husband, Nichol, who is stuck in boyhood and thinks and talks in bad poems. Arden doesn't survive the road, and the story belongs …
Cold-cocked: On Hockey
Lorna Jackson's Cold-cocked: On Hockey is much more than the first book-length appreciation of NHL hockey written by a woman. It is much more than a celebration of the Vancouver Canucks — past and present — and the city they call home. Smart, sassy and sexy, brashly opinionated and original, it offers up an inspiring vision of hockey, an apprec …
Dressing for Hope
Lorna Jacksons characters earn every scrap of comfort they get, sexual and otherwise. In the title story of Dressing for Hope, a bar singer finds her future is getting crowded when two ex-lovers turn up at the Hope Hotel to catch her gig, a third is on his way, and Š gives her a phone message from Ţ. From the tiny stage, she notices the Har …
Flirt
In Flirt: The Interviews, each story takes the form of a bogus interview with a famous person—athletes, musicians, writers. Each is a pastiche of source material—existing interviews, book-length biographies, and news accounts “that are then woven into the book's main conceit: the interviews are conducted by a woman who would much rather tell …
