Leon Rooke, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Leon Rooke lives in Winnipeg. Most recent of Rooke's 28 books include Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke (Thomas Allen 2001) and the novel The Fall of Gravity (Thomas Allen 2000). He has published more than 300 short stories and is represented in over 80 national and international anthologies. His novel Shakespeare's Dog (Stoddart 1982) won a Governor General's Literary Award and Fat Woman (Oberon 1980), another novel, won the Paperback Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for other prestigious awards.

Contributor to:
First Chapter (contributor)

Publications:
Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed, Louisiana State University, 1968
Vault: A Story in Three Parts, Lillabulero, 1973
The Broad Back of the Angel, Fiction Collective, 1977
The Love Parlour, Oberon, 1977
Cry Evil, Oberon, 1980
Fat Woman, Oberon, 1980
Death Suite, ECW, 1981
The Magician in Love, Aya, 1981
Shakespeare's Dog, Stoddart, 1982
The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta, ECW, l982
Sing Me No Love Songs I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories, The Ecco, l984
A Bolt of White Cloth, Stoddart Publishers, 1985
How I Saved the Province, Oolichan Books, 1989
A Good Baby, McClelland & Stewart, 1989
Daddy Stump, Magnum, 1991
The Happiness of Others, Porcupine's Quill, 1991
Who Do You Love? Twenty-six stories. McClelland and Stewart, 1992
The Boy From Moogradi and The Woman With The Map to Kolooltopec. Food for Thought, 1993
Muffins, Porcupine's Quill, 1995
Oh! Twenty-seven Stories, Exile Editions, 1997
Who Goes There, Exile Editions, 1998
The Fall of Gravity, Thomas Allen & Sons, 2000
Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke. Thomas Allen & Sons, 2001