Eek! I missed posting this entry on Saturday, as life intervened with a variety of distractions dragging me away from the computer. Hopefully you can forgive my tardiness.
My featured S awesome lady author is a fellow Concordia grad: Gillian Sze.
Gillian is making quite a name for herself in Canada as a poet. I first met her in a short fiction class, where she wrote beautiful, poetic short pieces about dreamy people that reminded me a bit of Francesca Lia Block. I published one of Gillian’s stories, “Velocity Girl,” in the first print issue of Black Heart Magazine as an example of sensuality—an element of storytelling that is all too often missing, both in literary fiction and in poetry.
Since then, Gillian has gone on to write several books of poetry, including The Anatomy of Clay and Fish Bones, and the chapbooks This is the Colour I Love You Best, A Tender Invention and Allow Me to Conjugate. She currently co-edits her own literary magazine, with a focus on Canadian content and art direction by Roberutsu, called Branch Magazine, which you should definitely check out; they’ve just released their “Make-Believe” issue.
Here’s a video of Gillian reading one of her poems from Fish Bones:
I’ve written about Gillian a lot already, so do click on the links to find out more about her poetry and her magazine. You should also check out her ever-changing website over at GillianSze.com to keep up with her comings and goings.
Who’s your favorite S author?
