PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Cross-genre Prose:

The Silence of Falling Snow.  Toronto: Coach House Books, 2025.  {Non-fiction}.

The Scent of Light.  Five Novellas.  Toronto: Coach House Books, 2022.  (This book is an omnibus volume of the five books below).

Night Train to Nykøbing.  Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1998.

The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust.  Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1996.

The Substance of Forgetting.  Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1992.

Zero Hour.  Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1991.

The Prowler.  Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1989.

Translations of the above series:

Zero Hour was published in French translation as: Degré zéro. Transl. Anne Malena.  Montréal: Leméac Édieurs, 1998.

The Prowler was published in French translation as: La maraude.  Transl. Anne Malena.  Montréal: Leméac Éditeurs, 1995.

Selections of the above series have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

Selected publications:

“From The Substance of Forgetting,” by Kristjana Gunnars.  Writing on Air, ed. David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor.  A Terra Nova Book.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2003 (163-168).  Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“From ‘The Cane Flute,’” by Kristjana Gunnars. Writing on Air, ed. David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor.  A Terra Nova Book.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2004 (107-115).  Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Selections from The Prowler, selected and translated into Icelandic by Garðar Baldvinsson in Íslandslag, Íslenskökanadískar bókmenntir frá 1870 til nútímans, 2006 (321-32).

Publications:  Poetry

Books and Chapbooks

 

112th Street Notebook.  Baltimore: Akinoga Press, 2023 (Chapbook).

Ruins of the Heart.  New York: Angelico Books, 2022.

At Home in the Mountains.  The Junction, Ontario: Junction Books, 2019.  [Chapbook]]

 

Snake Charmers. Ottawa: Above/Ground Press, 2016.  [Chapbook]

 

Silence of the Country. Regina: Coteau Books, 2002.

Exiles Among You. Regina: Coteau Books, 1996.

Carnival of Longing. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1989.

The Night Workers of Ragnarök. Toronto: Press Porcépic, 1985.

Wake-pick Poems. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1981.

One-eyed Moon Maps. Victoria: Press Porcépic, 1980.

Water, Waiting. Toronto: Underwhich Editions, 1987. [Chapbook].

Book-length cycles of poems published in journal instead of book-format:

 

"Reef."  Cycle of 24 poems.  Buffalo, New York: Paunch, 1984.

“Epistle of Wilderness.”  Longpoem.  Moonbeam, Ontario: Northward Journal, Winter 1983.

Publications: Short Fiction

 

Books

Any Day But This.  Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2005.

The Guest House and Other Stories. Concord: House of Anansi Press, 1992.