M. A. C. Farrant
M.A.C. Farrant (Marion Alice Coburn Farrant) (born April 5, 1947) is a Canadian short fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and humorist. She lives in North Saanich, BC. Career. Farrant writes fiction, non-fiction, memoir as well as book reviews and essays for the "Vancouver Sun" and the "Globe & Mail". Her memoir, "My Turquoise Years", which she adapted for the stage, premiered April 4- May 4, 2013 at the Arts Club Theatre's Granville Island Stage in Vancouver,BC. Her novel, "The Strange Truth About Us – A Novel of Absence", which the "Globe & Mail" hailed as "Delightful and  disturbing in all the best ways, this book addresses that which mostly remains unspoken in ways that have seldom been spoken before," was chosen by "The Globe & Mail" as a Best Book of 2012. "The World Afloat – Miniatures", a collection of very short fiction, was published by Talonbooks in the spring of 2014 and won the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize for that year. She has taught writing at the University of Victoria, the Victoria School of Writing, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and was Writer-In-Residence at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. M. A. C.