About the Author

David C.C. Bourgeois’ Acadian forebears helped found Port Royal, Nova Scotia, were expelled, and came right back to farm, fish, and vex the English. Though raised in Port Perry, Ontario, David inherited an attachment to the Cape Breton seacoast, a subject he explores in his debut novel, Full Fadom Five (Baraka Books), Finalist for the 2023 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. Other work has been published or shortlisted for awards in several Canadian literary magazines. He now lives with his wife and two adopted alley cats in Montreal, where he writes fiction and drama that explores the strange and unaccountable bonds people have to times, places, and people who are not exactly foreign to them, nor entirely familiar.

David also holds degrees from the University of Toronto and McGill University and teaches English Literature at John Abbott College. His current teaching interests include contemporary theatre, the plays of William Shakespeare, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, theatre text for actors, and theatre performance for non-actors.

In addition to promoting Full Fadom Five and continuing work on projects in progress, he has been catching up on some big novels he was supposed to read at U of T. Most recently the Russians: Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The novels are fantastic, and he is feeling somewhat relieved at finally seeing to his derelictions.