Davyd Gosselin

My mother read Grimm Fairy Tales aloud each night and books were a constant, comforting presence in my childhood. I began writing poetry around age ten, drawn to the challenge of distilling big emotions into small, carefully crafted lines. By twelve, I had devoured the Sherlock Holmes stories, and mysteries have stayed with me ever since.

In high school I shifted into fiction, earning my first publication with a descriptive piece called The Truck Driver in the school yearbook. At junior college, I continued nurturing my voice through creative writing and journalism, eventually writing for the student newspaper. I assembled a portfolio for the Creative Writing program at Concordia University—though an administrative mishap temporarily derailed my application, I was accepted the following semester.

Those three years at Concordia were filled with workshops, late-night conversations, and the steady companionship of classmates who became lifelong friends. Through it all, writing remained the thread connecting my curiosity, my love of story, and the joy I first discovered as a child listening to fairy tales before bed.