Daniel Zomparelli is a Canadian writer from
Vancouver
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British Columbia
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["Local poet publishes unique literary magazine; Publication Poetry is Dead focuses on young writers from across the country". ''Burnaby Now'', January 9, 2013.] He is married to American screenwriter
Gabe Liedman
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A 2006 graduate of
Simon Fraser University, he worked for the magazine ''
Adbusters'' before becoming founding editor of the poetry magazine ''Poetry Is Dead''. He has since published the poetry collections ''Davie Street Translations''
[ and ''Rom Com'', and the short fiction collection ''Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person''. ''Everything Is Awful'' was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and won the 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction."Martin West, Daniel Zomparelli and Rhonda Ganz win 2018 ReLit Awards"]
CBC Books, April 9, 2021.
Works
*''Davie Street Translations'' (2012)
*''Rom Com'' (2015, with Dina Del Bucchia)
*''Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person'' (2017)
References
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21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
Canadian male short story writers
Canadian people of Italian descent
Canadian gay writers
Canadian LGBT poets
Simon Fraser University alumni
Writers from Vancouver
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Gay poets
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