Matthew Trafford
Matthew J. Trafford's fiction has appeared in The Malahat Review and Matrix and has been anthologized in I.V. Lounge Nights and Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow. He has won the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction and an honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize. He lives in Toronto, where he works with deaf college students and performs long-form improv with his brother in their two-person troupe, The Bromos.
Divinity Gene, The
Recipient of the Honour of Distinction for the Dayne Ogilvie award, and long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize, the largest prize for a book of short stories worldwide, The Divinity Gene, is a beguiling and bizarre collection of stories from a remarkable new voice in Canadian fiction.
A mob of teens descends upon Paris in the thrall of …
The Divinity Gene
"Matthew J. Trafford's first story collection, The Divinity Gene, skewers urban culture 'even as it conjures up the magic in the mundane'...The Divinity Gene is a real triumph of the short story form, a piece that takes chances that all pay off, combining psychological insight with daring technical effects." -- Toronto Star
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