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Brenna Clarke Gray

Part muppet and part college faculty member, Brenna Clarke Gray holds a PhD in Canadian Literature while simultaneously holding two cats named Chaucer and Swift. It's a juggling act. Raised in small-town Ontario, Brenna has since been transported by school to the Atlantic provinces and by work to the Vancouver area, where she now lives with her stylish cyclist/webgeek husband and the aforementioned cats. When not posing by day as a forserious academic, she can be found painting her nails and watching Degrassi (through the critical lens of awesomeness). She posts about graphic narratives at Graphixia, and occasionally she remembers to update her own blog, Not That Kind of Doctor. Blog: Not That Kind of Doctor Twitter: @brennacgray

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Read More Canadian Literature!: Genre Edition

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Life Lessons from Anne

… Anne of Green Gables, that is. First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables (and the rest of the nine ...

Why I Read Young Adult Literature

As a bonafide grown up (membership card pending successful completion of one week without letting clothes pile up on the ...

In Defence of Darkness

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