RICHARD CUMYN is the author of nine books of literary fiction. A past fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, he has been published widely in Canada in such literary journals as The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Grain, Prism International and Event. He has been shortlisted twice for the ReLit Award, a finalist for a National Magazine Award (essay), and long listed for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His screen adaptation of Susan Kerslake's novel, Penumbra, won a 1998 Linda Joy Media Arts Award. He has taught fiction at the Maritime Writers' Workshop, read his work in the Dalhousie University, St. Jerome's (Waterloo) and Lorenzo reading series and been short-term writer in residence at St. Mary's University. In 2003 and 2004 he mentored emerging writers Ami McKay (The Birth House, Knopf) and Ryan Turner (What We're Made Of, Oberon) in the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. He lives in Edmonton.

"At the centre of this novel about love and belonging, Cumyn gives us a portrait of family and its familiar rhythms: dispersing and coming home again; together and then apart; in and out like breath. In prose that is warm and full of humour, This Lark of Stolen Time captures precisely the small moments of transformation that connect and help to define us."— Ryan Turner, author of What We’re Made Of and Half-Sisters and Other Stories

"This is sly storytelling at its best. Playing with time and structure, Richard Cumyn's head-hopping novel reads like cunningly connected stories that push the narrative towards a soaring epiphany. Each corresponding voice spreads its wings and brings the reader to the affecting reminder of stolen time." — Lee Kvern, author of Afterall, The Matter of Sylvie, 7 Ways to Sunday, and the upcoming Catch You on the Flipside

"A collection of interconnected novellas just might be fiction's most generous form: so many entrances, so many ways to come *in* to the story. Cumyn wastes no time on neat and far-too-tidy character and narrative arcs. Instead, he dances with characters the way Pollock danced with paint, creating dreamy yet connected — deeply connected — novellas. Connections forged, flubbed, and missed in the characters' lives shine light on our own flaws, failures, and deep needs for love." — Michelle Butler Hallett, author of Constant Nobody, winner of the Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction, and This Marlowe