Anne Perdue

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Anne Perdue graduated with honours from the creative writing program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where she was awarded the 2009 Marina Nemat Excellence in Creative Writing Award. Her story “The Escapists”was a winner in the Random House Student Competition and has been published in a chapbook titled Three. She lives in Toronto.

Books

I'm A Registered Nurse, Not A Whore

The darkly humorous stories in I’m A Registered Nurse Not A Whore (Insomniac Press, Oct 2010) takes dead aim at how easily our desire to be good is undermined by a desperate need for love. Despite a world of fading optimism and advancing catastrophe, plans are formulated, bargains struck and hope prevails. Beautifully imperfect, well meaning yet easily sidelined, the characters in these eight stories catapult off the rails of ordinary life before raising themselves up — if only for a moment — in oddly heroic ways. An assured debut by an award-winning new writer, these stories give us flawed, sometimes delusional, but always human characters.

Insomniac Press - $19.95 – Short Stories