Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer reads from her novel, The Nettle Spinner

Published by: Goose Lane Editions

Time of the reading: 6:08


Notes: Born on a small farm in Metcalfe, Ontario, now resident in Toronto, Kuitenbrouwer sees urban experience through the filter of her rural upbringing. Her first book, Way Up, was a collection of short stories, many of which appeared in such literary periodicals as Smoke, Prism international, Blood & Aphorisms, Prairie Fire and Descant. In addition to her fiction, Kuitenbrouwer has written for The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, Books In Canada, Maisonneuve Magazine, Bookninja.com, and The Literary Review of Canada, where she was fiction editor. Her acclaimed first novel, The Nettle Spinner, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.


"The Nettle Spinner, by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, is a marvellous novel with something of the magic of the best fairy tales in its structure, its timing, and in its richly textured narrative terrain... Kuitenbrouwer has done a wonderful job of taking the reader on a journey both wondrous and terrible." —Theresa Kishkan, Books in Canada

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