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K.R. Byggdin
K.R. Byggdin (born 1991) is a Canadian novelist from Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] CareerByggdin began publishing short fiction in 2018, with publications in The Antigonish Review, Grain, and others. Their debut novel, Wonder World, was published by Enfield & Wizenty (Great Plains Press) in 2022.[2] The novel tells the story of a 27-year-old pansexual Mennonite man named Isaac Funk who returns to his small Manitoba town after years on the East Coast.[3] Wonder World won the Thomas Head Raddall Award at the 2023 Atlantic Book Awards,[4] and was a finalist for the 2023 ReLit Award for fiction.[5] PersonalByggdin grew up in Niverville, Manitoba, where they attended a Mennonite church and due to their close contact with Mennonite communities, jokes that they are "Mennonite by osmosis."[6] They began to pursue writing as a career after being exposed to the writing of Miriam Toews by the town's mayor, while working in a summer job for the town government.[6] Byggdin studied creative writing at Dalhousie University.[7] References
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