As a screenwriter and story editor, Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Ennis Esmer, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd and Michael Cera, and for such series as Hudson & Rex, The Eleventh Hour, Life With Derek, Heartland, The Jane Show, G-Spot, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, The Gavin Crawford Show and Baxter, a show he co-created. He wrote and directed the feature film Dirty Singles which won for him the Irving Avrich Emerging Filmmaker Award at TIFF. Following the publication of his first novel, Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. His first story collection, Shimmer, was nominated for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent novel, The Education of Aubrey McKee, the second in a multi-part series, was just long-listed for the Toronto Book Awards.

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