Gil Adamson, Jessica Westhead, and Andreas Gripp at the IV Lounge Reading Series

Gil Adamson (The Outlander), Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge), and Andreas Gripp (Angel Clare) read at the IV Lounge reading series on December 14 at 8:00 p.m.

Gil Adamson cites as her influences Michael Ondaatje, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Mark Richard. Her acclaimed short fiction has been widely published in magazines and literary journals, and her collection of stories received rave reviews. The Outlander, ten years in the writing, is Gil Adamson's first novel. Adamson lives in Toronto, Canada.

Jessica Westhead is a Toronto writer who has published stories in litmags such as The Antigonish Review, Matrix, This Magazine, Geist, Taddle Creek, Forget Magazine, Word and Kiss Machine. Her fiction was included in the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection, and her short-story chapbook, Those Girls, was published by Greenboathouse Books in 2006.