LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut novel, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction.

He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist, Building Fires in the Snow: a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry. His stories have appeared in the literary journals Grain, The Ex-Puritan, Sanskrit and Prairie Fire, among others.

Of this work Nancy Zafris has said, Lucian “…can be funny, he can be poetic, but his humor is always the appetizer toward a main course of slightly darker journeys, of the sadness and even desperation that attends the exploration of identity.”

Additional accomplishments include being a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a recipient of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He has had residencies at Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY and at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands.

He holds bachelor’s degrees in English from Southern Methodist University and in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.