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. 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.

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. Both books received high praise from reviewers. Vanished in Vallarta, the third installment in the Fairfax series, was released in 2011, 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.

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

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

• Six poems: Humpback, Dissolve, Flown, Beggar, midstream, Bloor Line, North Beach CA (Maple Tree Literary Supplement (Issue #2) edited by Amatoritsero Ede)
• Small Furies (Canadian Literature, No. 182, Autumn 2004)
• Burning, remembering – 6 Dec ’91 ((EX)CITE Journal of Contemporary Writing, Premiere Issue, Spring 2001)
• Arrangements (Paperplates, Vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2000 (web))
• Autumn Lessons (The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 34)
• Friends; Father (The New Quarterly, Vol. XVII, no. 3, Fall 1997)
• Aria (The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 20)
• winter garden (Ariel, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1993)
• Wednesday Morning Launderette (LiNQ, Vol. 19, no. 2, 1992)
• Barque of Metaphor (The White Rose, Issue 24)
• new song/old rag and bone (Ammonite, Issue 5, March 1992)
• time and the nature of being; vacation incident (Nexus, Vol. 5, no.1, Spring 1992)
• Turn (The Antigonish Review, No. 85-85, 1991)
• for our mothers (The New Quarterly, Vol. X, no. 4, Winter 1991)

Novels

• A Cage of Bones (GMP, 1997, ISBN 978-0-85449-252-7)
• The P'Town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery (Haworth Press 2007, ISBN 978-1-56023-662-7)
• The P-Town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery (Cormorant Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-897151-28-0)
• Death in Key West: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery (Cormorant Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-897151-43-3)
• The Honey Locust (Cormorant Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-897151-38-9)
• Vanished in Vallarta: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery (Cormorant Books, 2010 ISBN 978-1-897151-82-2)
• Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery (Dundurn Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-459700-01-7)
• Pumpkin Eater: A Dan Sharp Mystery (Dundurn Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1-459708-17-4)

Anthologies

• "A Perfect Time to Be in Paris" in Bend Sinister (Peter Burton, ed. GMP-UK, 2002.)
• "Queen for a Day" in Bent on Writing (Elizabeth Ruth, ed. Canadian Scholars Press, 2002)
• "Isle of Women" in A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories (Peter Burton, ed. Arcadia Books, 2008)
• "Don Juan and the Queen of the Gypsies" in Don Juan and Men (Caro Soles, ed. MLR Press, 2009)
• "This Is Not Your Country" in Boy Crazy (Richard Labonté, ed. Cleis Press, 2009)

Filmography

• My Heart Belongs to Daddy (2003)
• BLOSSOM: A Portrait of Lilac Caña (2009)
• Driving With Rusty (2010)

External links

• Jeffrey Round
• Jeffrey Round at the Internet Movie Database