Zsuzsi Gartner

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Biography

Gartner was born 4 May 1960, in Winnipeg[1] and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides.

Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, Western Living and Canadian Business. She has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night and books editor for The Georgia Straight.

She is also a writer of short stories, which have appeared in a number of publications. She published a collection of these stories, All the Anxious Girls on Earth in 1999.

Gartner has been writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia and a member of the faculty at Banff Centre's Writing Studios.[1]

Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.

She also founded and directs Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, British Columbia.[2]

Awards and honours

Gartner's work has brought her three Western Magazine Awards, including a Gold Award in 2003 for feature writing.[2] In 2005, she won the Canadian National Magazine Awards' Silver award for Fiction.

Awards for Gartner's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2011 Better Living Through Plastic Explosives Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist [1][3][2]
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Bibliography

  • All the Anxious Girls on Earth (1999)
  • Darwin's Bastards (2009) – editor
  • Better Living Through Plastic Explosives (2011)
  • The Beguiling (2020)

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