Teaching and Writing: Tamas Dobozy and Gerard Collins Hosted by Aaron Tucker

Aaron Tucker is the author of seven books, including the novels “Soldiers, Hunter’s Not Cowboys” and “Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos” (both with Coach House Books). His poetry and new media work engaging with machine translation and 3D printing has been shown across Canada, and in the United States, Norway, and Brazil. His scholarly work on facial recognition technologies won the Governor General’s Gold Medal and his work on writing on artificial intelligence has been widely published in North America. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland, teaching Creative Writing and Communication and Media Studies.

Tamas Dobozy lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories (which won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award), and most recently, Ghost Geographies: Fictions. Tamas has published over seventy short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta, won an O Henry Prize in 2011, and the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014.

Gerard Collins is a Newfoundland writer, now living in New Brunswick, whose first novel, Finton Moon, was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award, and has won the Percy Janes First Novel Award. His short story collection, Moonlight Sketches, won the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. In 2021 his second novel, The Hush Sisters won an international Next Generation Indie Book Award in the suspense category and also was a finalist in the paranormal category. A  lecturer at Memorial University for two decades and an occasional lecturer at University of New Brunswick, Gerard has a Ph.D. in American (Gothic) literature. He is an experienced leader of writing retreats and workshops in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Recently, Gerard was invited by the Northrup Frye Festival to teach a Masterclass in creative writing and, in 2022, was a featured author and workshop provider at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge. Along with his wife, writer Jane Simpson, Gerard is co-founder of Go and Write! retreats and, when he’s not traveling, he’s working on the Threshold series, a sprawling, epic tale of love, magic, books, and the rise of fascism.