Paige Cooper’s debut collection of short stories, Zolitude (Biblioasis, 2018) won the 2018 Concordia University First Book Prize, and was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and the Danuta Gleed Award. CBC, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Quill & Quire listed it among their best books of the year. The French translation (Éditions du Boréal, 2019) was a finalist for the 2020 Prix de Traduction de la Fondation Cole. She was the 2020 editor of Best Canadian Stories. She has fiction forthcoming in Maisonneuve and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.
Her debut novel, NULLIGRAVIDA, is soon to be on submission. A literary speculative work exploring the relationship between an anti-natalist gynecologist who refuses to treat pregnant people, and her patient who believes she’s a sex robot, NULLIGRAVIDA examines the moral complexities of reproduction, asking what any of us will sacrifice to maintain access to the titration drip of privilege, to protect the delusions that shelter us from an increasingly intolerable reality, and to stay on the right side of the widening gap between those who have access to hope, and those who don’t.
Paige is represented by Samantha Haywood and Eva Oakes.
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