MFA Writing Program Visiting Artist Series: Gail Scott
CalArts, Butler Building 4
CRITICAL STUDIES: Gail Scott’s new novel, The Obituary (Coach House), finalist for the 2011 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal (Montréal Book Prize), is a ghost story whose fractalled narrator is haunted by the voices of Indigenous ancestors, as well as by generations of people passing below her Montréal triplex window. Other novels are My Paris, about a sad diarist in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin in contemporary Paris (Dalkey Archive, 2003), Main Brides and Heroine. Spare Parts Plus 2, is a collection of stories and manifestos. She is the author of the essay collection Spaces Like Stairs and, with Nicole Brossard et al, la théorie, un dimanche. The new narrative anthology Biting The Error, edited with Bob Gluck, Camille Roy, and Mary Berger, was shortlisted for a Lambda award. Her play Werther, Alive on the Radio, will be performed by Poets Theatre in San Francisco in January. Scott’s translation of Michael Delisle’s Le Déasarroi du matelot was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award in translation [2001]. She is co-founder of the critical French-language journal Spirale (Montréal) and Tessera. She teaches Creative Writing at Université de Montréal.
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