Richard Scarsbrook is the author of the hilarious and insightful YA novel Cheeseburger Subversive , its rock ‘n’ roll sequel, Featherless Bipeds, and a collection of prize-winning adult literary short stories called Destiny’s Telescope. His latest novel, The Monkeyface Chronicles, is receiving great reviews, and has been nominated for the 2011 White Pine Award!
His short stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Fire, Descant, Matrix, Carousel, The Dalhousie Review, PRECIPICe, The Guardian Unlimited (UK), Rampike, Storyteller, The New Orphic Review, The Nashwaak Review, The Harpweaver, The Backwater Review, NeWest Review, Lies With Occasional Truth, The Moose and Pussy, Jones Avenue, Verbicide (US), Surface and Symbol, Zygote, and many other magazines and anthologies.

Richard’s books have been short-listed for the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year Award (twice), the Ontario Library Association White Pine Award, the Stellar Book Award (twice), and the ReLit Award. His short stories have won a number of prizes and awards, including the Matrix Litpop Prize, the Hinterland Award for Prose, two New Century Writer Awards, and first prizes in the Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Shorts Story Competition, and the New Orphic Short Story Competition.
Richard teaches adult creative writing courses at George Brown and Humber Colleges in Toronto, runs a writing camp for teens at the Toronto Writers’ Centre, and taught middle and high school students for over 15 years.
He also plays, sings, and writes songs for several bands, and has worked as a stage actor and director.
More about Richard’s literary adventures can be seen at his website, www.richardscarsbrook.com, or his blog, www.richardscarsbrook.blogspot.com.