Contact

For appearances or interviews, email the author at: avaughan@eastlink.ca or contact:

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Elaine McCluskey writes contemporary novels and short stories set in the Maritimes. Her collection Rafael Has Pretty Eyes won the 2023 Alistair MacLeod prize for short fiction. McCluskey has been, at various times, a Canadian Press bureau chief, a University of King’s lecturer, a writing coach, and a book editor. She lives in Dartmouth, N.S. Her seventh book, a novel entitled The Gift Child, was released in Spring 2024 by Goose Lane Editions.

The author thanks Arts Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for making this work possible.

“Never trust no one in a leather hat.” Going Fast.

“Life is just one extended series of anecdotes strung together until they kill you.” Rafael Has Pretty Eyes.