Imagination 2021: Morgan Murray

Dirty Birds

Morgan Murray grew up on a farm near the same backwoods central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning. He now lives in the backwoods of Cape Breton with his wife, cartoonist Kate Beaton. In between, he has been a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, a tour guide, a schemer, a variety show host, and a student in Caroline, Calgary, Paris, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and St. John’s. His writing has been rejected by some of North America’s top publications. His first novel, Dirty Birds, made the long list for CBC Canada Reads, somehow.

Moderator: Peter Black

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