Diana Svennes-Smith’s SOB LAKE, a lyrical, deeply nuanced debut work of literary fiction interrogating the complex relationship that unfolds between a farm boy and a charismatic hired man, as the two of them lose and find each other against the backdrop of the final years of the Great Depression and WWII, pitched as a gay Lolita meets Brokeback Mountain, to Shivaun Hearne at House of Anansi Press, for publication Winter 2027, by Eva Oakes and Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (North America).
Diana Svennes-Smith grew up in the small farming and logging community of Vanderhoof in northern British Columbia and now resides in the city of Edmonton. She graduated with distinction from the University of Victoria Creative Writing Coop Program and earned her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Teaching-writing Fellow and recipient of the Glenn Schauffer New Zealand Teaching-Writing Fellowship. Diana has taught fiction writing at universities in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, and her writing has been published in Canada and abroad. Her short story, Stranger In Me, won a gold medal in fiction at Canada’s National Magazine Awards in 2018.
Diana is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Diana!