Hayden Trenholm
Hayden Trenholm’s short fiction has appeared in On Spec, TransVersions, Tesseracts6. Neo-Opsis, Challenging Destiny, Talebones and on CBC radio. His plays have been produced Alberta and Saskatchewan and on CBC radio. In 1993, his play, Man of No Name, was a finalist in the Theatre BC play competition and in 1994, he won the 28th Alberta Playwrting Competion with The Book of Rose. His short stories, "The Luck of Willie Lumen," "Like Monsters of the Deep" and "Lumen Essence" were nominated for an Aurora Award (Canada's SF Awards) in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2008, after a record fourth consecutive short fiction nomination, he won the Aurora for his novella, "Like Water in the Desert." His first novel, A Circle of Birds, was published by Anvil Press. His novel, Defining Diana, was released by Bundoron Press in 2008 and was nominated for an Aurora Award in the long fiction category. A sequel, Steel Whispers, was published in August 2009. He lives with his wife and fellow writer, Elizabeth, in Ottawa where he does research for the Senator for the Northwest Territories.