Biographical Notes

Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist, editor and journalist, originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, now living in Edmonton, Alberta.

Her next novel is called The Antagonist, and will be published in Fall 2011 by House of Anansi.

Fiction

Strange Heaven, 1998

"Fresh and raw and utterly unselfconscious. A book so entirely without guile and so completely of the earth, it's impossible to read it and wonder if the author isn't beating a whole new path."

Play the Monster Blind, 2000

"Coady's bag of insights is as big as anyone else's, yet her humour will make you clutch your stomach and laugh aloud."

Saints of Big Harbour, 2002

"It is a small-town story of ennui, addiction, failure, cowardice and violence in which we find men behaving badly or self-destructively and women despairingly, apathetically, manipulatively or hysterically. When I picked up the book I braced myself for another bleak round of social pessimism. In fact, I found myself gripped and amused."

Mean Boy, 2003

"Coady's portrayal of the jealous tenuousness of friendship, the in-fighting and fierce competitions of the literary world is daring and brilliant."

Editor

Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada, 2002

The Anansi 40th Anniversary Reader, 2007

The Journey Prize Stories 20: The Best of Canada's New Writers (with Heather O'Neill and Neil Smith), 2008

Recent Anthologies

Great Expectations, House of Anansi, 2008

Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories, 2006

Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, 2007 

Recent Non-fiction/Journalism        

Group Therapy advice column, The Globe and Mail

"Waiting for the Whales", Canadian Geographic, March 2008

"Ex and the City", unlimited magazine, 2009