Andrew Unger is an award-winning writer from Manitoba, Canada, best known as the author and founder of the satirical news website The Daily Bonnet. His 2020 novel Once Removed (Turnstone Press) tells the story of a ghostwriter fighting against gentrification in a small Prairie town, and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book at the Manitoba Book Awards. Since 2016, Andrew has written more than 2400 Daily Bonnet articles and the site has been mentioned in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Globe and Mail and even cited in the Canadian House of Commons. A collection of Daily Bonnet articles called The Best of the Bonnet (Turnstone Press) was released in 2021. Andrew’s work has also appeared in Geez, Rhubarb, Ballast, Preservings, CBC.ca, the Winnipeg Free Press, Alberta Views, and Friends Journal, among many others. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Andrew is also a public speaker and educator and lives with his wife Erin in Steinbach. If you go back far enough, he is probably related to you.
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