“Nowadays and Lonelier is a dazzling collection of stories that made me feel so much. I marvelled at Gray-Cosgrove's command of language in these vivid explorations of what it means to feel connection, isolation, and hope.” —Zoe Whittall, author of The Spectacular

“Nowadays and Lonelier is the kind of story collection that comes along once or twice in a decade, if we’re lucky. The kind of collection that reroutes the circuitry of the short story so it hits the heart and brain and gut like a psychedelic. Graceful as Swan Lake, dangerous as a syringe discarded in the bushes where children play. These are very tough, desperately tender stories that stick to your insides. Busting with compassion and stylistic bravado. If you find yourself lonelier nowadays, read this. I promise you will be altered, astonished.” —Lisa Moore, author of Something for Everyone

Carmella Gray-Cosgrove was raised in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples and lives in St. John’s, on Ktaqmkuk, the traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq and the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk, with her partner and their child. Her fiction has appeared in Prism, Broken Pencil, Freefall Magazine, the Antigonish Review, and elsewhere. Nowadays and Lonelier was shortlisted for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. She holds a master’s degree in geography from Memorial University and was an F.A. Aldrich Fellow.

The Dance of the Cygnets
Nowadays and Lonelier
Mars Spills Out
Fourth Floor Looking North
Warmer Soon
Almost Touching
Float
Blue like the Sky
Cap-Rouge
Today Is the Day
Dive Master
La Foule
Corpus Christi
Another Angel
New Chelsea
Whippits
Blunt Object
Go Time
The Cull
The Weight of It
Be Happy Darling and Love Me
Power Pose