Zoey Leigh Peterson, author portrait
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Zoey Leigh Peterson

ZOEY LEIGH PETERSON was born in England, grew up all over the United States and now lives in Canada. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus, EVENT, Grain, PRISM international and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction (The Malahat Review) and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (The New Quarterly). Next Year, For Sure is her first novel.

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