Rebecca Rosenblum and Mike Knowles Launch Their First Books

Head to Bryan Prince Booksellers on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. for the Hamilton launch of Rebecca Rosenblum's Once (Biblioasis), a collection of all-too-real comedies and tragedies, and Mike Knowles's novel Darwin's Nightmare (ECW), a story of a violent chain of events.

Rebecca Rosenblum just graduated from the English and Creative Writing masters program at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in Exile Quarterly, Danforth Review, echolocation, The New Quarterly, Qwerty, Ars Medica and Journey Prize Stories 19, and will be included in 2008's Coming Attractions and Best Canadian Stories Anthologies. Once, her first book, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award for fiction. Rebecca lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario.

Mike Knowles studied writing at McMaster University before pursuing a career in education. He became an elementary teacher and currently teaches in Hamilton where he lives with his wife and dog. Darwin's Nightmare is his first novel.