Gail Scott

Gail Scott is the recipient of the 2024 Mavis Gallant award for her memoir Furniture Music, tracking the daily life, writing, and politics of a group of downtown Manhattan poets in the watershed early Obama moment. She is a two-time finalist for Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal for Permanent (upside down) Revolution, about radical prose writing across the continent, and for her novel The Obituary, a tale of suppressed history in post-millennial Montréal. Other novels include Heroine, set in turbulent 1980s Montréal, and My Paris, whose sad diarist seeks a lost avant-garde in ’90s Paris. A Governor General finalist for fiction translation, she lives in Montréal.