On September 16, MacEwan’s Visiting Authors Series features Astrid Blodgett.
Astrid Blodgett is the author of the short story collections This is How You Start to Disappear and You Haven’t Changed a Bit, both of which have been short- or long-listed for awards. Her story, “Ice Break,” was first published in The Antigonish Review and, later, The Journey Prize Anthology. Subsequently, the story appeared (in translation) in a Russian journal that publishes foreign writers and then became part of the Danish Royal Ministry of Education’s English exams. It has also been used in a textbook as a model in a chapter on “Puzzle Plots.” Besides writing, Astrid loves multi-day river trips and very long walks, especially Camino Edmonton. For this event, she will be reading from her latest collection of twelve new short stories that explore the consequences of grief, denial, and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever.
