M. A. C. Farrant

Marion Alice Coburn Farrant (born April 5, 1947) is a Canadian short fiction writer and journalist. She lives in North Saanich, British Columbia.

Career

Farrant has written fiction, non-fiction, and a memoir, as well as book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail. Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she adapted for the stage, premiered April 4–May 4, 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre's Granville Island Stage in Vancouver. Her novel, The Strange Truth About Us – A Novel of Absence, was chosen by The Globe & Mail as one of the Best Books of 2012. The World Afloat – Miniatures, a collection of very short fiction, was published by Talonbooks in the spring of 2014 and won the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize for that year.

She has taught writing at the University of Victoria, the Victoria School of Writing, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and was Writer-In-Residence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.