 Billie Livingston (CAN) is a fiction writer, poet and essayist. Her short story collection Greedy Little Eyes won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award as well as the CBC Bookie Award. She was a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and conductor of writing workshops for The Writers’ Union of Canada and the University of British Columbia Creative Writing Department. Her newest engaging novel One Good Hustle is about Sammie, an adolescent girl living in Burnaby, BC during the 1980s. Born into a family with an absent father and pill-popping alcoholic mother, Sammie goes to live with her friend’s straight-laced Christian family.Billie Livingston, cr: Branden Haggerty |
