André Babyn is a writer and editor living in Montréal, where he currently teaches at The Writing Centre of McGill University. He’s represented by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Agency.
André is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Master’s in Creative Writing program, where he completed a novel under the supervision of Miriam Toews about art and loneliness in small-town Ontario. That novel, Evie of the Deepthorn, was published February, 2020 with Dundurn Press. Recently he received his PhD from the University of Toronto for his project translating Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls in two versions, one roughly contemporaneous with a Middle English translation and another, more modern version that strips it of its conventional medieval rhetoric.
His fiction and poetry has been published in Maisonneuve, Poetry, Grain, The Fanzine, Hobart, Pank, Bad Nudes, and elsewhere. His non-fiction has been published at HTML GIANT, AWP Writer, and elsewhere.
In 2015 he was the recipient of the Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing for his story “The Rifle.” In 2010 he won the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing for his story “Imperfect Homes.“
From December 2015 to February 2018, he served as the Fiction Editor of the Puritan, where he had contributed in various capacities from August 2013. Previously he also served as Editor-in-Chief of Echolocation Magazine and the Hart House Review.
In another life he drew comics, and he’s also responsible for the website YouHaveTooMuch.com.
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