by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt On the last day of moose season, Sylvaine’s father came scowling into the kitchen. He kicked a chair and threw his buffalo plaid jacket onto the upturned legs. “In the woods since five and nothing to show for it.” Twelve-year-old Sylvaine stepped away from the toaster to let him retrieve his coffee […]
Author: Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s fiction, essays and poems have appeared in Best Canadian Essays 2019 and Best Canadian Essays 2015, The New Quarterly, Grain, EVENT, Prairie Fire, Malahat Review, subTerrain, carte blanche, Antigonish Review, Room, Queen’s Quarterly, Syncopation, The Masters Review Anthology X (forthcoming), and The Toronto Star. She holds an MA from McGill University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her memoir, Peacekeeper’s Daughter, (Thistledown, 2021) was nominated for the QWF Mavis Gallant Award for Nonfiction. Her debut poetry collection, Chaos Theories of Goodness, will be published in 2022 by Shoreline Press. Learn more about Tanya’s writing at tanyaallattbellehumeur.com. (Photo: Emma Allatt)