Marilyn Gear Pilling

Marilyn Gear Pilling’s short fiction and poetry have been published in most of Canada’s literary magazines, and have won and been shortlisted for many national awards. Her work has been in the finals for both the CBC literary competition and the Western Magazine Awards, and her poetry has been broadcast on CBC radio. She has won a number of Hamilton and Region Arts Council awards for her poetry and for her short fiction.

The Toronto Star said of her fiction: “Pilling has a poet’s gift for unlocking the strangeness beneath the familiar; her seductive stories reveal the secret flamboyance under the surfaces of our lives.”