Leona Gom

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Leona Gom is the author of 13 books of fiction and poetry, and has been published extensively in journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, England, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Australia and New Zealand. She has also given hundreds of readings, lectures and workshops on writing. In 1980 her book Land of the Peace won the CAA Award for best book of poetry of the year and was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award. In 1986 her novel Housebroken was awarded the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. She has also had two full-length radio plays, The Inheritance and Sour Air, produced by CBC, and one of her novels has been optioned for a movie.

Gom was born and lived for twenty years on an isolated farm in northern Alberta, where her parents homesteaded. She received a BEd and MA, both with honours, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and taught there in the Department of English for two years. She then taught English and Creative Writing at Douglas/Kwantlen College in BC, where she was editor and poetry editor of the award-winning literary magazine Event; she has also taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing courses at UBC. She was writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta in 1987/88, at the University of Lethbridge in 1989, and at the University of Winnipeg in 1990. She now lives and writes full-time in White Rock, BC.

The Exclusion Principle

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  · Adult Literary Fiction

256 pages
6" x 9"
$18.95 paper
ISBN: 978-1-894549-79-0

Release: April 2009

Spring 2009
literary fiction