Write Now! Presents: Terri Favro

Terri Favro’s writing is inspired by a lifelong obsession with science fiction, comic books, robots, steampunk and Greek and Roman myths. Terri is the author of four novels, including “The Sisters Sputnik” (2022, ECW) and “Sputnik’s Children” (2017, ECW), a Globe & Mail 100 Book, a Quill & Quire recommended book, a CBC Books Top 10 Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Sunburst Prize for Excellence in Canada Literature of the Fantastic and longlisted for CBC Canada Reads. She is also the author of the popular science book, “Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation" (Skyhorse, 2018, revised 2020) and co-creator with Ron Edding of a series of comic books, most recently a true-crime graphic novel, “Cold City” (Coxwell Station Comics). A finalist for the CBC Literary Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, Terri’s essays and short fiction have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Clockwork Canada Steampunk Fiction, On Spec, The Quarantine Review, Prism, Broken Pencil, Grain, Room, Humber Literary Review, Hamilton Review of Books, Riddle Fence, Untethered and Voices from the FOLD, the publication of the Festival of Literary Diversity. In 2025, her horror story, Rubber Road, will be published in “Devouring Tomorrow”, a cli-fi anthology from Dundurn Press. Raised in the Niagara region, Terri now lives in Toronto and blogs at terrifavro.ca.

About Write Now!

This talk is part of Writing 2520A (Write Now! - Writers on Writing) offered by the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University. Writing 2520A is organized around a series of lectures by writers. Every week, a new writer visits the class to read from their work, talk about their writing and their career, and answer questions. Guest lectures are open to Western students, staff and faculty.

For more information about this course, please visit our course information page.

Everyone is welcome!