ABOUT
Photo by Brian Gibb
LUCIAN CHILDS is the author of the novel, Confluence (forthcoming, Arsenal Pulp Press), co-written with his late husband, Alex Turner. His debut novel, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis, 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction.
He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist, Building Fires in the Snow: a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry (University of Alaska Press, 2016). His stories, essays and reviews have appeared in WritersDigest.com and in the literary journals The New Quarterly, Grain, The Ex-Puritan, and Prairie Fire, among others.
“[Lucian] can be funny, he can be poetic, but his humor is always the appetizer toward a main course of slightly darker journeys, of the sadness and even desperation that attends the exploration of identity.”—Nancy Zafris, former Flannery O'Connor Award series editor
He was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a recipient of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He has been an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Artscape Gibraltar Point and the Vermont Studio Center.
He is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, the Canadian Authors Association and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. He holds bachelor’s degrees—in English from Southern Methodist University and in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.
