Biography « Rose Coloured

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Rebecca Rosenblum is a writer and editor living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in a small town near Hamilton, Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her husband, the author Mark Sampson and their two cats, who write nothing. Rebecca’s” short fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, The National Magazine Award, and the Danuta Gleed Award, longlisted for the Relit Award, and she was herself a juror for the Journey Prize 21. Her work has been seen in Exile Quarterly, The National Post The New Quarterly, Toronto Life, This Magazine, Journey Prize Stories 19, Maisonnueve, Coming Attractions, and Best Canadian Stories.

Photo of Rebecca Rosenblum, a white woman with dark hair in a blue dress

photo by Claire Sibonney

Her first collection of stories, Once, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was one of Quill and Quire’s 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. The Maclean’s blog called Rebecca “Canlit Rookie of the Year” in 2008. Her second collection, The Big Dream, was published by Biblioasis in September 2011 and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Award. One of the stories from that book was turned into a short film, How to Keep Your Day Job.

Rebecca’s first novel, So Much Love, came out with McClelland & Stewart in 2017 and was short listed for the Amazon First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, among others, and translated into both French (as Coeurs Battants) and Polish (as Tyle miłości).

Rebecca’s agent is the wonderful Samantha Haywood at The Transatlantic Literary Agency. If you would like to know more about Rebecca, please read/listen to/watch some of the fun interviews and profiles below. And if you wish to interview Rebecca yourself website, print publications, or other project, feel free to get in touch at the contact link on the top right of this page.

Text and video interviews on Now Magazine Trillium Mini Site

Article in The Glanbrook Gazette