I am an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. I am the author of several books and an editor at the daily newspaper The Telegram. My new novel, Walt, is a psychological thriller about a grocery store cleaner who uses found shopping lists, and the personal details they contain, for his own dark purposes. The novel will be published by Anansi in the fall of 2014.

My last book, Whirl Away (Thomas Allen Publishers), a collection of short stories, won the Raddall Prize for best Atlantic Canadian fiction and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller prize, the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the Winterset Award. My first novel, The Glass Harmonica (Thomas Allen Publishers), won the 2011 Winterset Award. That novel explores how the residents of a changing St. John's neighbourhood view their lives, one another and the events, savage and tender, that bind them together.

I also write editorials and columns for The Telegram.

My website: http://www.russellwangersky.com
Buy Walt: http://www.houseofanansi.com/Walt-P2416.aspx