Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the short fiction collections Better Living Through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth, the editor of Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, and the creative director of Vancouver Review’s Blueprint BC Fiction Series. Better Living Through Plastic Explosives was shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize. Zsuzsi is a long-time contributing reviewer for The Globe & Mail. Zsuzsi lives in Vancouver.

Zsuzsi Gartner

Eleven Orphaned Short-Story Openings (circa 1996–2012) Looking for a Loving Home

Zsuzsi Gartner·24th May 2016

'She came to us from Kansas City with smoke in her habit, shorn hair glinting copper. She came with her guitar and her firm belief in penance and her expertise in all things eschatological.'

Fiction Lists Number 25 | The Big Corking Fiction Issue - Part I

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Forgotten Traces

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On Art, Walking With Our Sisters and the Problem with Reconciliation

Sinatra Sang in Sentences

An Album Can Last a Day

Zsuzsi Gartner

Eleven Orphaned Short-Story Openings (circa 1996–2012) Looking for a Loving Home

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