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Jack Stilborn

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in Saskatoon, Canada

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Jonathan Swift, Stephen Leacock, David Foster Wallace, Terry Fallis

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Jack lives in Ottawa, Canada. The Tyranny of Good Intentions is his debut novel. His recent work received Honorable Mention in the 2024 Alice Munro Short Story Context and has also appeared in The Maple Tree Literary Supplement (January 2025), The Spadina Review (June 2025) and Blank Spaces (June 2025).

Childhood stories about travelling into a dinosaur’s eustachian tube and an inspection of the Saskatchewan educational system by God. He studied English literature and political science at the Univ. of Sask, Oxford University and Western University (PhD dissertation on concepts of revolution in Tocqueveille's thought). His main career was as a policy researcher for Canada’s Parliament (federalism and public administration).

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