One good hustle by billie livingston7/6/2023 The Chick at the Back of the Church was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She is married to American actor Tim Kelleher, and lives in Vancouver. She has received fellowships from The Banff Centre, MacDowell Colony, Escape to Create (Seaside, FL), Ucross Foundation and Omi International Arts Center. In addition to publications in journals and magazines around the world, Livingston's poetry has appeared in textbooks and on public transit through the TransLink "Poetry in Transit" program. Livingston's One Good Hustle, a novel about a young woman's fear that she is genetically doomed to become a con artist, was long-listed for the 2012 Giller Prize and selected by The Globe and Mail, January Magazine, and Toronto's Now Magazine as one of the year's best books. Her 2nd novel, Cease to Blush, was published in 2006 and subsequently chosen as one of the year's best books by The Globe and Mail, January Magazine, and The Tyee. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Going Down Swinging (2000), was followed by The Chick at the Back of the Church (2001), a poetry book that was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Livingston was born in Hamilton, Ontario.
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