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Curtis Gillespie
Writer
Wrote five books of fiction and non-fiction, as well as somewhere north of 100 magazine articles. Won seven National Magazine Awards, including a record-tying four in 2014. Co-founded and edited Eighteen Bridges magazine, winner of 14 National Magazine Awards. Received University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award 2015.
Six-word memoir
Underpromised, overdelivered, left the place clean.
Favourite book
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Deepest fear
People sneezing on public transport, scary movies, black ice on the highway, the ocean (I’m a prairie boy), and my wife leaving me.
