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Michael Redhill
Michael Redhill was born in
Baltimore, Maryland, but has lived in Toronto most of his life. Educated
in the United States and Canada, he took seven years to complete a three-year
BA in acting, film, and finally, English. Since 1988, he has published
five collections of poetry, had eight plays of varying lengths performed,
and been a cultural critic and essayist. He has worked as an editor,
a ghost-writer, an anthologist, a scriptwriter for film and television,
and in leaner times, as a waiter, a house-painter, and a bookseller.
Currently, he is the publisher
and one of the editors of Brick, a journal of things literary. His
most recent books are Fidelity, a collection of short fiction,
from Doubleday Canada, Martin Sloane, a novel from Doubleday
Canada (nominated for the Giller Prize, 2001, the Trillium Prize, 2001,
the Torgi Award, 2002, the City of Toronto Book Awards, 2002, the Books
in Canada/Amazon.com Best First Novel Prize 2002, and winner of the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean
2001), Light-crossing, a collection of poetry from Toronto’s
House of Anansi Press, and Building Jerusalem, a play, from Playwrights
Canada Press, (winner of the 2001 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New
Play, recipient of a Chalmers Award for Playwriting 2001, and nominated
for a Governor General’s Literary Award 2001). His new play, Goodness
was published by Coach House Press in 2005 His latest novel, Consolation,
was published by Doubleday Canada in 2006 and won the 2007 Toronto Book
Award. It was also long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
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