Gloria Blizzard

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Gloria Blizzard is the author of Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, a diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion. Her work has won the Malahat Review’s Open Season Creative Nonfiction prize and been nominated for the Queen Mary Wasafiri Life Writing Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

A History of Canada: Truth-telling through Fiction

July 2024
Gloria Blizzard
As someone who writes nonfiction, poetry, and songs based on my own realities, I am amazed by the fiction writer’s capacity to create worlds. In the books that follow, the authors seamlessly weave res…
The Year of Jazz

May 2022
Gloria Blizzard
Gloria Blizzard and Jazz, Lake Ontario, Canada | Photo by Heidi Seirekidis This essay takes the form of a jazz standard. Nestled within the intro and outro are alternating A and B sections. I am…