Interview with the OMDC

I really enjoyed doing this interview with the OMDC - Ontario Media Development Corporation for the Trillium Book Awards. We talked about the inspiration for the collection, and about Toronto, and Ontario as inspirations (a shout out to one of my great writing teachers, the wonderful Evan Jones for encouraging me years ago to write about Toronto)

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