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Praise
"Best writing I've read by a living writer since who knows when."
Darrell Epp, poet, Sinners Dance, Imaginary Maps, After Hours
“This girl was born to write and she writes as well as I do.”
Crad Kilodney, writer, Putrid Scum, Shakespeare for White Trash
“The Astronaut’s Wife establishes Lorette C. Luzajic as a rising, multi-talented poet on the Canadian scene. Her insights into the heights and depths of our common human struggle to live out our own often-buried divinity hold the ring of authenticity and truth. Weep, laugh, enjoy!”
Tom Harpur, bestselling writer, Would You Believe?, Water into Wine
"All around creative genius...Lorette, you are a superstar.”
Ariel Gore, author of Hip Mama, The End of Eve
“Imaginative, witty...surprising, profound, very human, touching, sassy.”
Thomas Moore, bestselling author, Care of the Soul, Soul Mates
“The Astronaut’s Wife treads holy ground, sometimes with holy rawness and sometimes with unholy eloquence. The last two stanzas open a whole other realm.”
Will Braun, editor, Geez Magazine
Education:
Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University
Editor: The Ekphrastic Review: a journal of literature inspired by visual art
Column: Eat. Play. Rove., Good Food Revolution
past: Wine and Art, Good Food Revolution
Online or Digital Publications
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Litro, LossLit, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Toronto Psychotherapist, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagaus, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Anthologies
Around the World: Landscapes and Cityscapes, edited by Steve Carr, Sweetycat Books
Burning Ambitions: the Anthology of Short-Shorts, Rush Hour Revisions, edited by Debbie James
The Cold Floors of Unkindness, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Earth Hymn, edited by Clare MacQueen, KYSO Flash Editions
Group of Seven Reimagined, Heritage House Editions, edited by Karen Schauber
Is It Hot In Here or Is It Just Me?, edited by Janette Schafer, Beautiful Cadaver Projects
Listening to the Birth of Crystals, the People's Poet Publishing
Love Like Salt, edited by Amy Byrne, Like This Press
On the Fly: Stories in Eight Minutes or Less , Lit Star Collective, intro by Ariel Gore
The People's Poet Anthology 2, the People's Poet Publishing
Pixie Dust and All Things Magical, edited by Anita Nahal, AuthorsPress
The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester (Poemeleon Journal)
Shift: Positions- Thoughts on the Future of Design, OCAD Student Press, intro by Ed Burtynsky
Stained, edited by Rachel Neve Midbar, pending
Storm Cycle, edited by A.J. Huffman and April Salzano, Kind of a Hurricane Press,
Take My Word For It, edited by Ingrid Shelton, David C. Cook Publishing
This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, edited by Bruce Meyer and Michael Mirolla, Guernica Editions
Unsheathed, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Ventriloquy: Pandemic Evolution, Sheila Na Gig Editions
Prizes
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "Darker," 2021, nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," 2021, nominated by
Best of the Net, "Blood," 2021, nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," 2019, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," 2015, nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," 2020, nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," 2019, nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," 2019, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University
Editor: The Ekphrastic Review: a journal of literature inspired by visual art
Column: Eat. Play. Rove., Good Food Revolution
past: Wine and Art, Good Food Revolution
Online or Digital Publications
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Litro, LossLit, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Toronto Psychotherapist, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagaus, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Anthologies
Around the World: Landscapes and Cityscapes, edited by Steve Carr, Sweetycat Books
Burning Ambitions: the Anthology of Short-Shorts, Rush Hour Revisions, edited by Debbie James
The Cold Floors of Unkindness, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Earth Hymn, edited by Clare MacQueen, KYSO Flash Editions
Group of Seven Reimagined, Heritage House Editions, edited by Karen Schauber
Is It Hot In Here or Is It Just Me?, edited by Janette Schafer, Beautiful Cadaver Projects
Listening to the Birth of Crystals, the People's Poet Publishing
Love Like Salt, edited by Amy Byrne, Like This Press
On the Fly: Stories in Eight Minutes or Less , Lit Star Collective, intro by Ariel Gore
The People's Poet Anthology 2, the People's Poet Publishing
Pixie Dust and All Things Magical, edited by Anita Nahal, AuthorsPress
The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester (Poemeleon Journal)
Shift: Positions- Thoughts on the Future of Design, OCAD Student Press, intro by Ed Burtynsky
Stained, edited by Rachel Neve Midbar, pending
Storm Cycle, edited by A.J. Huffman and April Salzano, Kind of a Hurricane Press,
Take My Word For It, edited by Ingrid Shelton, David C. Cook Publishing
This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, edited by Bruce Meyer and Michael Mirolla, Guernica Editions
Unsheathed, edited by Betsy Mars, Kingly Street Press
Ventriloquy: Pandemic Evolution, Sheila Na Gig Editions
Prizes
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "Darker," 2021, nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," 2021, nominated by
Best of the Net, "Blood," 2021, nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," 2019, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," 2015, nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," 2020, nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," 2019, nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," 2019, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Books
Poetry
The Astronaut's Wife: Poems of Eros and Thanatos
Solace
The Lords of George Street
Aspartame
Prose Poetry/Small Fictions
Pretty Time Machine
Winter in June
Fiction
Funny Stories About Depression
The Heart is a Lonely Scavenger
Creative Nonfiction
Fascinating People: twenty five unusual lives
Fascinating Writers: twenty five unusual lives
Fascinating Artists: twenty five unusual lives
Weird Monologues for a Rainy Life: irreverent ramblings from the end of the world
Dendrite Pandemonium: hits, misses, and random b-sides
Kilodney Does Shakespeare, and other stories
Truck, and Other Thoughts on Art
Anthology Editor
Strong Meat: repulsive reading by Crad Kilodney
Michael Jackson for the Soul: a fanthology of devotion and love
Goodbye, Billie Jean: the meaning of Michael Jackson
Art and Photography
A Heartbreaking World of Staggering Glorious
The Incomplete Works of Lorette C. Luzajic
Eclectic Curiousity
Image Fountain v. 1
Image Fountain v. 2
Thinking Inside the Box; the Undrawn Art of Poet's Heart, with Portly Bard