Résidence des auteurs de fiction en début de carrière — automne 2024

Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Awards. Stories in this collection have been selected for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best of the Net, featured on Levar Burton Reads and Selected Shorts, and optioned for television and film. Fu was born in Canada and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Kazim Ali’s Sukun: New and Selected Poems was published by Wesleyan UP in the fall of 2023. Ali’s work encompasses multiple genres, including poetry (The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Inquisition, Sky Ward, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue) and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light. Ali is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Norm Nehmetallah is the publisher at Invisible Publishing, a scrappy not-for-profit press that focuses on literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He’s worked as a District Sales Manager at Penguin Random House Canada and spent a couple glorious years making books at Toronto’s Coach House Books, but he got his start fumbling with the cerlox binding machine in the basement of Windsor’s Biblioasis. He grew up in a large Arab Canadian family in Windsor, Ontario, but he now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.