Fiction. MISSING THE ARK is the highly anticipated first novel from acclaimed spoken word artist Catherine Kidd. Growing up in East Vancouver in the 1980s, Agnes Underhill's active but troubled imagination makes it difficult to live with her dysfunctional family: her Scottish father speaks in tongues and lives in a locked basement room, while her dental hygienist mother juggles a number of lovers. The novel follows Agnes' relationship with Buffalo man, a divorced taxidermist whom she follows home from the zoo, and the jealous chimpanzee who lives with him. Catherine Kidd's writing has been published in four other conundrum press releases as well as countless magazines, journals and anthologies. An excerpt from MISSING THE ARK was nominated for the prestigious Journey Prize and sections were adapted into the award winning stage show, Sea Peach. Kidd has performed her stories all over the globe: New York, Edinburgh, Bavaria, Singapore, Toronto, Oslo, Bristol, Montreal, South Africa, and many points in between. She lived in Whitehorse, Vancouver, and Northern India before making Montreal her home. Her voice can be heard narrating sports documentaries, air safety messages, circus promos, and lip-gloss commercials. She also appears in the tv mini-series St. Urbain's Horseman, filmed in Montreal.

Author City: Vancouver, BC CAN

Catherine Kidd is a Montreal-based writer/performer; author of the novel Missing the Ark (conundrum press, 2007). Her cd/book Sea Peach (conundrum press) was launched as a solo show in 2002, and won the MECCA (Montreal English Critics' Circle Award) for Best New Text of 2003. Described as "an adult blend of Dr. Seuss and Aesop's Fables," the show toured to festivals in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, New York, Bristol and Oslo; also the Edinburgh Fringe 2004, Toronto's World Stage 2005, and the 2006 Arena Festival in Erlangen. Kidd's work has been featured in Montreal's Festival Voix d'Amériques and Festival Metropolis Bleu. Her dvd/book Bipolar Bear (conundrum press) includes live performance footage from the Singapore Fringe 2006, also the Spier Arts Poetry Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, Spring 2007. Her writing is published in Ascent, Matrix, and This magazines, while her short-story Green-Eyed Beans was nominated for the Journey prize. Her signature voice can be heard narrating Cirque du Soleil promos, air safety messages, a couple of documentaries about women's pro sports, and a cinematic lip-gloss rap.