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Author of the novels Filaria ('08), The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter ('11), and Head Full of Mountains ('14), and of several shorter fictions, collected in Broken Sun, Broken Moon ('19).

UK born, raised in Montreal, lived in LA for a spell and as an expat in Poland. Currently resides in Toronto.

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"Hayward's debut [Filaria] is a powerful, beautifully-written dystopian tale concerning four inhabitants of a gigantic but dying artificial habitat... With well-developed characters and four strong plotlines told through alternating chapters, Hayward delivers a fulfilling read.
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	Filaria 3.89 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter 3.24 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live (Chilling Tales, #1) by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brent Hayward (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nancy Kilpatrick (Contributor) 3.52 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Head Full of Mountains 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories by Matt Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brett Alexander Savory (Editor), Jon Martin Watts (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Sun, Broken Moon 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“These mod cons, despite the brief excitement they generated, were basically chutes leading down to clay pipes, which in turn acted as simple conduits to the river, depositing the waste of the rich next to the waste of the poor, where the distinction was lost on the kholics, who attempted, each day, to clean it up.”
― Brent Hayward, The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter

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“Lunacy attracting lunacy. Then, of course, they encourage each other, I suppose, validate each other.”
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“... he understood how little time comprised a life, and how tenacious and wondrous and frustrating the interim between oblivions could be.”
― Brent Hayward, Head Full of Mountains

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“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
― Gene Wolfe

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“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”
― Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

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“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
― George R.R. Martin

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“If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers.”
― Paul Westerberg

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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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