Peter Dubé is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and cultural critic. He is the author of the chapbook Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001), the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002) and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short stories (DC Books, 2007).
His fiction — informed by surrealism, queer and “popular” cultures, as well as a whole host of heretical and apocalyptic visions — deploys dense verbal surfaces to investigate the narrative construction of experience, particularly at the points where imagination, desire and the body politic intersect. In other words, his writing is often weird, sweaty and lush.
In addition to his fictional work, his essays and critical writings have been widely published in journals such as CV Photo, ESSE, Hour and Ashé, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Occurrence, Quartier Éphémère and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University.
He is a member of the National Council of The Writers’ Union of Canada and is a Past President of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. In addition, he presently serves on the Editorial Committee of the art magazine Espace Sculpture, and was a member of the Editorial Board of the literary magazine Index.
Peter is a native Montrealer (the only identity politic from which he seems unable to work free) and despite periodic bouts of obsessive traveling, continues to live and work in the city of his birth.