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David Balzer was born a fraternal twin to a Mennonite family in north Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He studied English literature at the University of Manitoba and, then, at McGill University in Montreal, where he received his MA. He currently resides in Toronto, where he makes a living as a critic, editor and teacher. He is a two-time National Magazine Award–winner and a co-founder of the Toronto Alliance of Art Critics. He is also a fiction writer: his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Contrivances, is forthcoming from Joyland/ECW Press. He is currently working on a novel.
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