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M.A.C. Farrant (born April 5, 1947) is a Canadian short fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and humourist. Born in Sydney, Australia, and residing on the Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Canada, since the age of five, she is the author of ten collections of satirical and humorous short fiction and a novel-length memoir, My Turquoise Years which she has adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver. B.C.; it is currently in development. Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction was published by Talonbooks in the Fall of 2009. “The Secret Lives of Litterbugs”, humour/non-fiction, appeared from Key Porter Books in April, 2009. In 2011 Talonbooks will publish The Strange Truth about Us, a collection of Farrant’s newest fiction. A full-time writer, she has been a regular book reviewer for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail since 2004. An active promoter of the literary arts, she is the co-producer and host of the Sidney Reading Series.

Farrant’s work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, “Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.”

The Ottawa Citizen has called Farrant “One of the best humourists in the land.”  BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most ascerbic and intelligent humourist.”