ArticlesQuentin Mills-Fenn

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  Fiction

  A complex pairing delves into genetics and identity

  Vancouver-based Keith Maillard has published more than a dozen novels in his long career. His latest, Twin Studies, concerns a brother and sister who claim to be identical twins. What follows is a story about identity, loss, and gender. And twins.

  By Quentin Mills-Fenn     Issue 73, Fall/Winter 2018/19

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  Fiction

  Coming Out

  Two highly anticipated debut novels by up-and- coming writers with Winnipeg connections were just published this spring. Both books – Casey Plett’s Little Fish (about a trans woman named Wendy Reimer) and Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed (about a Two-Spirit man) – have a good deal in common, besides their Winnipeg settings.

  By Quentin Mills-Fenn     Issue 72, Spring/Summer 2018

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  Poetry

  Giving voice to Russia’s last tsarina

  Winnipeg poet Lori Cayer’s latest book focuses on an unlikely subject: the last tsarina of Russia, Alexandra. Mrs Romanov reads like a memoir in verse, from Alix’s marriage to the future tsar, Nicholas, to the birth of her children and her relationship with Rasputin, to the time her world came crashing down.

  By Quentin Mills-Fenn     Issue 73, Fall/Winter 2018/19