“The Exquisite Cyclops,” a new personal essay by Kathy Page, will appear in the next issue of Canadian magazine of ideas and culture, Geist. https://www.geist.com/writers/about

Always a versatile writer, perhaps best known for her fiction (titles include Dear Evelyn, a Writers’ Trust Prize winner, and two Giller–nominated short fiction collections, Paradise & Elsewhere and The Two of Us), Kathy Page now faces the challenge of living with Parkinson’s Disease. The ability to create fictional predicaments has abandoned her (or she it), replaced by a desire to explore and chronicle the physical realities, philosophical perplexities and many ironies of her new situation. “Which is,” she dryly remarks, “more interesting than you might expect. “The Exquisite Cyclops” is the second part of that ongoing project to be published, following “That Other Place,” which first appeared TNQ https://tnq.ca/ and was selected by Mireille Silicoff as a Best Canadian Essay of 2023, Biblioasis 2023.