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Wangersky, Russell

Originally from Connecticut, journalist and writer of fiction and non-fiction Russell Wangersky grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His debut short story collection, The Hour of Bad Decisions (Coteau, 2006), won a gold medal at the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was long-listed for the ScotiaBank/Giller Prize and short-listed for the Commonwealth Best First Book Award (Canada and the Caribbean). Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (Thomas Allen, 2008), a memoir of his eight years as a volunteer firefighter, won the Edna Staebler Award, the Rogers Cable Non-fiction Award, the British Columbia National Book Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Drummer General’s Award.

Wangersky lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Titles written by Russell Wangersky:

EarLit Shorts 2
(Prudence Grieve, Catherine Hogan Safer, Russell Wangersky, Claire Wilkshire)

McNally's Fair
short fiction single
(Russell Wangersky)

Echo
short fiction single
(Russell Wangersky)