Andrew Westoll

Andrew Westoll is an award-winning author and professor whose writing explores our fraught relationship with the natural world. His books include The Riverbones (2008), the Charles Taylor Prize-winning The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (2011), and The Jungle South of the Mountain (2016). His next book, The Zoo at the End of the World, explores the many paradoxes of the modern zoo, and is forthcoming from Knopf Canada. Andrew is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, of Creative Writing and English at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), where in 2019 he won the annual UTSC Teaching Award, which recognizes sustained teaching excellence. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, is a Gold National Magazine Award winner, and his books have been published in the USA, UK, Australia and Poland.

Session: The Power(s) of Animals’ Stories: A Multi-Media Roundtable