Betsy Trumpener is an award-winning CBC News reporter, writer and radio documentary producer. She has lived in Iowa, Israel, Alberta, Ontario, Bavaria and the Black Forest. She now lives with her family between a wild swamp and a pipeline in northern British Columbia, where she covers the daily drama of British Columbia's interior.
Trumpener's non-fiction and fiction writing have been published in the 'Guardian', the 'Globe and Mail, This Magazine, NOW Magazine, Monday Magazine', the 'Malahat Review, Event', the 'Queen Street Quarterly, Northword' and 'filling Station'. She was the first annual writer in residence for the CBC weekend arts show, 'North By Northwest', and she has been awarded a Western Magazine Award for her column, "North of Unreal," a Jack Webster Award for Best Radio Feature, and a Jack WebsterAfrica JournalismFellowship. 'The Butcher of Penetang' is her first book. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.
"Are you up for meeting hunters with hearts of gold and the souls
of children in a story called 'A Slip of the Tongue'? Or a toddler
who cracks eggs on the family dog's snout in a story called 'Even a
Blind Hen'? Or the youth group leader who likes to show young
girls his porn magazines at the Bible camp's sleepover in
'Instructions for Altar Boys'? Or Keith at the Good Shepherd Day
Centre, who thinks a wet teabag is his testicle and who later is
picked up for trying to rob a bank with his wife's hairbrush in
'Satan's House'? I am. I like the sheer wackiness of Betsy
Trumpener's style and her courage in trying it on." -- BC
Bookworld
"The stories in Trumpener's first collection are sharp and
unconventional. They are short, often less than two pages, and they
sometimes lack the beginning/middle/end of the conventional short
story. But these stories burst from the page in language that is
succinct and mesmerizing... Trumpener picks tiny moments and
translates them onto the page with a vividness and intensity that
makes this a remarkable debut collection." -- Halifax Herald
"Trumpener's writing is odd yet striking, off-putting yet inviting,
and at its strongest (in stories like 'The Search Party' and 'Pop
Goes the Weasel!') it offers readers intimate and privileged
access to the lives of its characters. Like Ross, Trumpener brings
a poet's economical toolkit to the short story and in turn, builds
a place for herself among our most promising writers in the genre."
-- Canadian Literature
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