John Metcalf

John Metcalf is one of Canada's most distinguished literary editors, writers, critics, and anthologists. He has helped shape the sensibility of an entire group of emerging writers through his work at the Porcupine's Quill press. Known for his strong views about literary standards, Metcalf has nurtured some of our most essential writers, including Leon Rooke, Russel Smith, Terry Griggs, Caroline Adderson, Annabel Lyon, Andrew Pyper, Steven Heighton, Jane Urquhart, Elise Levine, Clarke Blaise, Michael Winter, and Mary Swan, among dozens of other fine authors.John Metcalf is the Senior Editor of Porcupine's Quill. An accomplished writer, editor, and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction including "Adult Entertainment, The Lady Who Sold Furniture", and "Kicking Against the Pricks: Essays".

Books by John Metcalf

Off the Record

Temerity & Gall

Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories

Light Shining Out of Darkness

Finding Again the World

The Canadian Short Story

Best Canadian Stories

Vital Signs: Collected Novellas

An Aesthetic Underground

Shut Up He Explained

Going Down Slow

Writers Talking

Forde Abroad

Writers in Aspic

Carry On Bumping

The Porcupine's Quill Reader

Freedom from Culture

Shooting the Stars

How Stories Mean

The Bumper Book

Bumper Book

The Lady Who Sold Furniture