All We Want Is Everything (18 page)

Thanks to all those who published these stories in earlier forms, including
Joyland, The Cleveland Review, Little Fiction, Drunken Boat, Burrow Press, Grain, The New Quarterly, Bluestem, The Good Men Project, Border Crossing, The Drum, Corium, Necessary Fiction, Metazen, The Rusty Toque, The Other Room, Monkeybicycle, Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure
and
EVENT.

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project from the beginning. Thanks to Chris Bucci for finding something in my fiction.

Thanks to all my mentors, especially Miriam Toews for her incredible generosity and Jeff Parker for his sage advice.

Many thanks to everyone who helped inspire and improve these stories, especially Brendan Bowles, George Pakozdi, Suzannah Showler, Daniel Mittag, Troy Palmer and Karen Principato.

Special thanks to John K. Samson for believing in this book, and to Rick Wood and Kathleen Olmstead at ARP for bringing it to life. Major thanks to Leigh Ledare for the dogs.

Thanks to my family and my parents, Ed and Shelley. This book does not exist without you. You have always been there from the start.

And finally, thanks with love to Jen, who keeps the ship from sinking.