About the Author

Jon R. Fliegers work has appeared in numerous journals including Canadian Literature, Descant, The Malahat Review, filling Station, The Windsor Review, Rampike, The Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and Matrix. He is anthologized in The Mays collection of the best Oxford and Cambridge writing and his fiction appears on McSweeneys Internet Tendency. He is a former editor at The Windsor Review and former head of fiction at filling Station. His writing won The Capilano Reviews 2013 Experimental Narrative Contest, the 2011 Norma Epstein Canadian national award for fiction, and an Orison Award. He has been an invited speaker for the City of Calgary, the Banff Centre, and the University of Oxford. He lives in Windsor. He is afraid of bees.

Reviews

"You Are Among Monsters is devastatingly wise and relentless in its parsing of the kindness and lies of language, and of the tangled relationships between the characters who populate the novel. Fliegers writing is terrifying but still outrageously funny, daring the reader to face the monsters both within and without." Suzette Mayr

"Dwelling in the uncertain yet generative spaces between history and story, passion and dispassion, prose and poetry, No Chance and hope, Flieger brings language back to life, showing that it is helpful, that in the right hands it speaks both the monstrous and the beautiful within us." Susan Holbrook