Event Speaker: Michelle Syba

Michelle Syba was born in Toronto and grew up Pentecostal. Her story collection, End Times (Freehand Books, 2023) was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. End Times explores the lives of people variously entangled with evangelical culture, from a hipster megachurch pastor to a management consultant on the verge of a nervous breakdown at Davos. At a time when the end feels nigh for many, End Times assembles an expansive cast that includes immigrants, the elderly, the burned-out, and the lonely, examining our hidden anxieties and longings.