Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round
Born Sudbury, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater Dalhousie University
Website
www.jeffreyround.com

Jeffrey Round is a Canadian writer, director and composer, who has published poetry, literary fiction and mystery novels.[1] Born in Sudbury, Ontario, he currently lives in Toronto.

Background

Round studied at Dalhousie University, and holds a degree in English literature. He attended the Humber School for Writers as well as Ryerson University's Film and Television program.

He is openly gay.[1]

Career as an author

His first novel in 1997, A Cage of Bones, was published by the Gay Men's Press (UK), and topped bestseller lists in Canada, the US, Iceland, Australia and others. His second novel, The P-Town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery, was published in 2007 by Haworth Press, and was republished in 2008 by Cormorant Books in Canada.

In 2009, Cormorant released Death in Key West, the second Bradford Fairfax murder mystery. The Honey Locust, his literary novel about the Bosnian war, was published in 2010.[1] Both books received high praise from reviewers. Vanished in Vallarta, the third installment in the Fairfax series, was released in 2011,[1] while Lake on the Mountain, a literary thriller, followed in spring 2012.

In 1990, Round founded The Church-Wellesley Review, Canada's first annual print journal for creative writing for the LGBTQ community. It was published as a quarterly supplement in Xtra! until 2000, and then continued as an online publication until 2002.

He served on the jury for the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Farzana Doctor as that year's winner.[2]

In 2013 he won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Mystery category for Lake on the Mountain.[3]

Theatre work

In 1992, Round co-founded Best Boys Productions, an experimental theatre company, together with John Davison. The company was in operation for five years and produced, among other works, Round's Right to Privacy Award-winning play, Zebra, about the murder of Toronto librarian Kenneth Zeller in High Park in 1985. At the same time, Round was the stage director for Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, Canada's longest-running stage production, at the Toronto Truck Theatre.

Film work

Round wrote and directed the short film My Heart Belongs to Daddy in 2003. He has also released two documentary films, BLOSSOM: A Portrait of Lilac Caña (2009) and Driving With Rusty (2010), a film about the late Rusty Ryan.

Bibliography

Published Poetry

Novels

Anthologies

Filmography

References

External links

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