Margo LaPierre
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Margo LaPierre, MFA. Margo’s graduate thesis is a literary novel entitled Lucid Mechanics.
Margo LaPierre is a neuroqueer freelance editor and writer who aims to reduce stigma associated with bipolar disorder and psychosis. Her second poetry collection, Ajar, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in October 2025. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. An alumnus of Banff Centre and Sage Hill residencies and Toronto Metropolitan’s publishing program, she has served on Arc Poetry magazine’s executive and editorial boards since 2019. You can find her writing in the Ex-Puritan, CV2, Room, filling Station, and elsewhere.
Her debut literary novel is a metaphysical love story set in a Toronto strip club in 2012. James Judas is a suicidal subway track-maintenance worker in love with a stripper—his girlfriend, Lux—a dancer aging out of work. He’s on track to die young, and she fears dying alone. The novel depicts psychotic episodes as dangerous yet accurate glimpses of reality’s structure. Lucid Mechanics will remind readers that those who are stigmatized due to illness, addiction, sex work, or their sexuality deserve love, family, and a happy ending. For readers of Denis Johnson, Alicia Elliott, and Rufi Thorpe.
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