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Zoe Whittall has written two novels, Holding Still for as Long as Possible (House of Anansi, 09/10) now out in paperback and optioned for film. Her first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts, was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire magazine. Now Magazine awarded her the title of Best Emerging Author of 2007. She has published three books of poetry, Precordial Thump, (exile, 08) The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan Books, 01) and The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare Books, 06.) The Globe and Mail called her "the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler. She was born in South Durham, Quebec, resided in Montreal during the early 1990s and has lived in Toronto since 1997. She is currently at work on a book of short stories called We Might Be the Worst People on Earth.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Bottle Rocket Hearts (2007)
Holding Still for As Long As Possible (2009)
The Middle Ground (2010)
The Best Kind of People (2016)
The Spectacular (2019)
The Fake (2023)
Holding Still for As Long As Possible (2009)
The Middle Ground (2010)
The Best Kind of People (2016)
The Spectacular (2019)
The Fake (2023)
Collections
The Emily Valentine Poems (poems) (2006)
Precordial Thump (poems) (2009)
Wild Failure (2024)
No Credit River (poems) (2024)
Precordial Thump (poems) (2009)
Wild Failure (2024)
No Credit River (poems) (2024)
Anthologies edited
Omnibus editions show
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Last Winter (2023)
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