Andrew Binks
| Andrew Binks has worked, written, acted and taught across the globe, from Fringe Festival solo shows, to the Stratford Festival, to Da Vinci’s Inquest, to modeling in Paris, to teaching business English in Japan. Binks holds a BA in Drama from Queen's University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. A finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Contest and This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Binks' fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has appeared in Galleon, Prism International, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, Bent Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Xtra, Queen's Alumni Review, Quill's lust issue, and the Velvet Avalanche poetry anthology. He recently spoke on behalf of UBC at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in New York City on the challenges and benefits of multi-genre creative writing programs. After fifteen years in Vancouver, he has returned to Ontario. The Summer Between is Binks' first novel. |
