Anne Stone teaches creative writing/literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver and at Concordia University in Montreal. As an an editor of Matrix Magazine, she has guest edited, with Amber Dean, a special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her novels include, jacks (DC Books, 1998), Hush (Insomniac Press, 1999) and Delible (Insomniac, 2007), which tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Anne Stone published Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn $22) about a 15 year-old girl, Dany whose world is ravaged by a virus that erodes memories. Except for her sister Mac, most of Dany’s family has been quarantined to a prison-hospice run by the Ministry of Disease Control. Then, a more virulent strain of the disease emerges and Dany experiences symptoms. She flees her home city with her best friend and Mac. But Dany’s memory and identity continue to erode. When she begins to question reality itself, Dany struggles to navigate her trauma and the world. 978-1-989496-11-4

BOOKS:

jacks: a gothic gospel (DC Books, 1998)
Hush (Insomniac Press, 1999)
Sweet Dick All (chapbook)
Delible (Insomniac, 2007)
Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) $22 978-1-989496-11-4

Photo by Wayde Compton.

[BCBW 2020] "Fiction"