Brandon Pitts

Biography

BRANDON PITTS is the author of Tender in the Age of Fury (Mosaic Press, 2015). Known for subverting gospel and scripture to create political allegories, Brandon first came onto the Toronto lit scene in 2010 with the short story the BC Crib, published in the anthology Canadian Voices Volume II. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Diaspora Dialogues as an “Emerging Voice” for fiction, followed by the novel Puzzle of Murders (Bookland Press, 2011) and the popular poetry collection Pressure to Sing (IOWI, 2012). He continued this run of productivity with the production of three plays and editing the anthology, The Courtney Park Connection (IOWI, 2013).

Samples

A POEM FOR AQ Why couldn’t I have met you a long time ago when the ocean was born and the haze pulled me into existence from the fold We could have been pleasure And I would have said to you the word and you could have taken from me that life altering breath

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