Craig Davidson was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published four books of literary fiction: Rust and Bone, which was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film of the same name, The Fighter, Sarah Court, and Cataract City (which was shortisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize), as well as a nonfiction memoir, Precious Cargo. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his articles and journalism have been published in the National Post, Esquire, GQ, The Walrus, and The Washington Post, among other places. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his partner and their child.

Workshops: Sensory writing and Using your own life in fiction