Join Muskoka Authors Association on Thursday, April 13 for an engaging talk with poet and novelist, Aaron Kreuter. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Comparative Study in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University and the author of three books, the most recent of which, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award and was included on the CBC Best Poetry Books of 2022 list.
In 2016, Kreuter published his debut poetry collection Arguments for Lawn Chairs in 2016, and followed up with his first short story collection, You and Me, Belonging, a nominee for the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction and the 2019 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. Lake Burntshore, a novel set at a Jewish sleepover camp, is forthcoming from ECW Press.
Kreuter also has a forthcoming non-fiction work, Leaving Other People Alone. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout the book, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain multiple, diasporic voices that resist and write back against national centres.
His work has appeared in such places as The Literary Review of Canada, X-Ray Literature, and The Puritan.
Aaron Kreuter lives in Toronto.
NEW Location: Bracebridge United Church, 46 Dominion Street, Bracebridge, lower level. Enter by door on the driveway side. An elevator is available.
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm
Fee: MAA Members: Free, Non-Members: $20
For more information and to register, visit Eventbrite or visit MuskokaAuthors.ca and click on UPCOMING EVENTS or call David Bruce Patterson at 705-801-8074.