M. A. C. Farrant

M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant) (born April 5, 1947) is a Canadian short fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and humourist.

Life and career

Born in Sydney, Australia, and residing on the Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Canada, since the age of five, she is the author of ten collections of satirical and humorous short fiction and a novel-length memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she has adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver. B.C.; it is currently in development. Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction was published by Talonbooks in the Fall of 2009. The Secret Lives of Litterbugs, humour/non-fiction, appeared from Key Porter Books in April, 2009. In 2011 Talonbooks will publish The Truth about Us, a collection of Farrant's newest fiction. A full-time writer, she has been a regular book reviewer for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe and Mail since 2004 . An active promoter of the literary arts, she is the co-producer and host of the Sidney Reading Series.

Farrant's work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, "M.A.C. Farrant's short stories revel in the absurdity of the modern world. If you've never heard of her, just think of her as the 'bizarro' Alice Munro."

"M.A.C. Farrant is a master of the literary equivalent of a waking dream, creating subtle insurrections disguised as prose. The Breakdown So Far, her latest collection of absurd short stories, is a minivan crammed full of weird." Toronto Star

BC Bookworld has called her "Canada's most acerbic and intelligent humourist."