Word Problems

(Paperback)

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• Ian Williams novel Reproduction won the 2019 Giller Prize and is being published in the US by Europa Editions (Spring 2020).
• Ian Williams previous poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
• Poetry collections that explore race and identity (i.e., American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes) are very popular.

Reviews

"Going in circles is structural ... in Ian Williamss Word Problems, a challenge in this case not of nature but of white supremacist culture and its enforcement. Event Magazine "His word play is always in the service of a deadly seriousness, and recognizing the issues is critical to an improvement in relations among human beings."The Ormsby Review

Author Bio

Ian Williams is the author of the Giller Prizewinning novel Reproduction. His last poetry collection Personals was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyones Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. Williams holds a Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgarys Distinguished Writers Program. Ian Williams currently resides in Vancouver, BC.