Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Twin Studies. Born and raised in West Virginia, he has lived in Vancouver for most of his adult life. He has been a musician, photographer, and journalist, and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia since 1989.

“This memoir is an astonishing act of generosity and tenacity, exploring the profound flaws of one family’s dynamics and the resiliency of the human spirit.”- Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster“Fatherless is Keith Maillard’s haunting response to that most ancient curse: Why, father, did you desert me? How, father, should I love you?”- Clark Blaise, author of I Had a Father“Marvelous and brutally honest.”- Marc Harshman, author of Woman in Red Anorak and poet laureate of West Virginia

Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Twin Studies. Born and raised in West Virginia, he has lived in Vancouver for most of his adult life. He has been a musician, photographer, and journalist, and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia since 1989.

“This memoir is an astonishing act of generosity and tenacity, exploring the profound flaws of one family’s dynamics and the resiliency of the human spirit.”- Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster“Fatherless is Keith Maillard’s haunting response to that most ancient curse: Why, father, did you desert me? How, father, should I love you?”- Clark Blaise, author of I Had a Father“Marvelous and brutally honest.”- Marc Harshman, author of Woman in Red Anorak and poet laureate of West Virginia

Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Twin Studies. Born and raised in West Virginia, he has lived in Vancouver for most of his adult life. He has been a musician, photographer, and journalist, and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia since 1989.

“This memoir is an astonishing act of generosity and tenacity, exploring the profound flaws of one family’s dynamics and the resiliency of the human spirit.”- Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster“Fatherless is Keith Maillard’s haunting response to that most ancient curse: Why, father, did you desert me? How, father, should I love you?”- Clark Blaise, author of I Had a Father“Marvelous and brutally honest.”- Marc Harshman, author of Woman in Red Anorak and poet laureate of West Virginia