Neale McDevitt
Neale McDevitt is fixture of the Montreal neighbourhood NDG, having lived in a four-block radius of Sherbrooke Street his entire life. His debut collection of short stories, One Day, Even Trevi Will Crumble (Exile Editions), celebrates the denizens of this community, and won the Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award in 2003. Before turning his sights on writing, McDevitt was a weightlifter in the 1980s, winning the Pan-Am Championship in 1985 and representing Canada in the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Neale McDevitt