Welcome to CMD, David Demchuk!
We are thrilled to welcome David Demchuk to CookeMcDermid! He is represented by Ron Eckel.
David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for more than 40 years. His debut horror novel THE BONE MOTHER, published in 2017, was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Kobzar Book Award and a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novel category. It won the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Adult Fiction category, was listed in the Globe and Mail's 100 best books of 2017, and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.ca. RED X was published by Strange Light in 2021 and was listed as a Rakuten Kobo Top 20 of 2021 selection, a CBC Books pick for Best Canadian fiction of 2021, and a New York Public Library Best Book of 2021—one of just three Canadian novels on the list. His new novel THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER, with debut author Corinne Leigh Clark, was published by Soho Press in North America and Titan Books in the UK in May. David’s writing has appeared in numerous anthologies as well as Toronto Life, Hazlitt, Winnipeg Review, Chronotope, Unfortunately, JAKE, Weird Horror and Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse.
After many years in Toronto, David lives with his husband in an old house by the sea in St. John’s, Newfoundland.