David Demchuk’s debut novel The Bone Mother won the 2018 Sunburst Award for adult fiction, and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Shirley Jackson Award, among others. His new book RED X, an unusual combination of gothic horror, true crime, urban history and queer memoir, was published in August 2021 and was listed as one of the year’s top 100 books by New York Public Library and CBC Books, and one of the year’s top 20 books by Rakuten Kobo. David was originally born in Winnipeg, and currently lives in Toronto.
