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Growing up in a communal housing project on the tip of Vancouver Island, Buffy Cram spent most of her childhood running wild on beaches with a gang of kids her own age. When she wasn't on the beach she was spying on adults from up trees.
Since that time Buffy has spent much of the last decade teaching and writing in Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Texas, Mexico, South Korea, South America and various parts of Europe. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and now lives on Salt Spring Island where she is a farmer and an entrepreneur.
Buffy's stories have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Bellevue Literary Review and the anthology, Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales From Tomorrow. Her fiction was a finalist for the 2009 Western Magazine Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has received a National Magazine Award for her creative non-fiction.
In her second novel, Once Upon an Effing Time (D&M, 2023), Elizabeth Squire, a child of the ‘60s, has a complex and difficult relationship with her mother Margaret. Margaret leaves Ontario and takes Elizabeth with her on a life journey that sometimes includes criminal misadventures. Yet Elizabeth tries to remain close to the neglectful, conspiracy-loving Margaret. It leads Elizabeth to adopt personas and live multiple lives such as transforming into a fortune teller who speaks in Bob Dylan lyrics, and joining an American hippie doomsday cult.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Radio Belly Stories (D&M, 2012) $19.95 9781553659020
Once Upon an Effing Time (D&M, 2023) $24.95 9781771623605
[BCBW 2023]
Since that time Buffy has spent much of the last decade teaching and writing in Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Texas, Mexico, South Korea, South America and various parts of Europe. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and now lives on Salt Spring Island where she is a farmer and an entrepreneur.
Buffy's stories have appeared in Prairie Fire, The Bellevue Literary Review and the anthology, Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales From Tomorrow. Her fiction was a finalist for the 2009 Western Magazine Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has received a National Magazine Award for her creative non-fiction.
In her second novel, Once Upon an Effing Time (D&M, 2023), Elizabeth Squire, a child of the ‘60s, has a complex and difficult relationship with her mother Margaret. Margaret leaves Ontario and takes Elizabeth with her on a life journey that sometimes includes criminal misadventures. Yet Elizabeth tries to remain close to the neglectful, conspiracy-loving Margaret. It leads Elizabeth to adopt personas and live multiple lives such as transforming into a fortune teller who speaks in Bob Dylan lyrics, and joining an American hippie doomsday cult.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Radio Belly Stories (D&M, 2012) $19.95 9781553659020
Once Upon an Effing Time (D&M, 2023) $24.95 9781771623605
[BCBW 2023]
