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Royston Tester grew
up in Birmingham, the English Midlands. Before emigrating
to Canada in 1978, he spent time in London, Barcelona, and Melbourne. He has
been a fellow of the Hawthornden writers’
retreat in Scotland and the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain, and he is a
frequent Leighton Studio artist-resident at The Banff Centre. He has
published short fiction in numerous Canadian literary journals, including Descant, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, and The Malahat Review; his work has been
anthologized in Rip-Rap (1999) and Intersections (2000), both from the
Banff Centre Press, and in the Quickies
series (Arsenal Pulp Press). In 2003, he was short-listed for Pagitica’s International Literary Competition. In
the U.S., his stories have appeared in online publications such as Blithe House Quarterly and Lodestar; in 2002 he was a finalist in
the U.S. New Century Writer Awards. His first collection of linked stories, Summat Else (2004),
will be followed by a second, You Turn
Your Back (2006), both published by Porcupine’s Quill. Currently at
work on a novel, For The English To See,
he lives in the Little Italy area of Toronto. Visit Royston Tester’s website!
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