Education
He attended the University of King"s College and Carleton University where he studied English literature.
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Still Life with June: A Novel
( The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperat...)
The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperate for basic human contact that they'd go home with a Doc Marten shoe if it made a move, and maybe even if it didn't. So begins the story of Cameron Dodds, a disenfranchised writer who visits gay bars on Christmas and works at a Salvation Army Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in order to steal the stories of the people he meets there. But when Cameron finds a patient hanged in the utilities closet, his infatuation with other people's stories becomes an obsession. Assuming the man's identity, Cameron seeks out and forges a relationship with the victim's mentally challenged sister, who lives in a home uptown. As Cameron becomes more involved in the woman's life, he begins to discover truths that will challenge him to the very core of his existence.
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Just Beneath My Skin
(In the small town of North River, every day that goes by ...)
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness breeds violence, violence causes despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister's son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father's advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life - working a grueling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer - does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost: in choosing freedom, Jake abandons his own son, Nathan, to the care of the boy's abusive mother. Years later, a reformed Jake comes back for Nathan, to finally set things right. But in North River, everything comes around again; and when a dangerous figure from the past becomes hell-bent on dragging the new Jake "back down where he belongs", three generations of MacNeil men must come together to pay the full price of hope. Gritty, unrelenting, yet peppered with Darren Greer's trademark mix of wit and poignance, Just Beneath My Skin is the work of an author at the height of his game.
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Darren Greer
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Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Greer lived in several small towns, including Greenfield, Queens County, Nova Scotia and Liverpool, Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario in 1990. He lived in Ottawa, Toronto and San Francisco before moving back to Nova Scotia in 2010. Greer"s first novel, Tyler"s Cape, was published in 2001 to critical acclaim and was on the bestseller list of The Chronicle Herald.
The novel was also a finalist for the Pearson Canada Reader"s Choice Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award in Manhattan.
The book was optioned for film in 2007 by Amaze Film and Television and published in the United States. by Street Martin"s Press. His long-awaited third novel, Just Beneath My Skin, was released by Cormorant Books in May 2014.
Achievements
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Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for 2015 Just Beneath My Skin Shortlisted for the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award 2015 for Just Beneath My Skin Shortlisted for the 2015 Relit Award for Just Beneath My Skin. Shortlisted for Ferro-Grumley Award 2005 for Still Life With June Nominated for People"s Choice Award 2004 at Word On The Street Toronto Winner of the 2004 Relit Award for Still Life With June.".
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Still Life with June: A Novel
( The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperat...)
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Just Beneath My Skin
(In the small town of North River, every day that goes by ...)
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Still Life with June: A Novel
Politics
He has also written for Maclean"s Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, Bywords Magazine, the Stockholm Review of Literature, Foundation Press, the Foundation Poetry Review and the Gay and Lesbian Review and in 2005 published a book of 16 essays in the categories of memoir, political science and contemporary art In a review of the essays in Books in Canada Canadian author and critic T.F. Rigelhof called Greer "one of the most joyously alive, vibrant young writers in the country." On August 15, 2015 Greer announced the sale of his fourth novel, Advocate, to the Canadian publisher Cormorant Books to be published in May 2016.
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