Alexi Zentner is the author of Touch and The Lobster Kings (forthcoming), both from W.W. Norton & Company in the USA and Knopf Canada in Canada.

Shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award, The 2011 Center for Fiction's Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the 2011 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

"it takes some writers an entire
career to write a novel like Touch.
Zentner did it on his first try"
The National Post

"breathtaking"
PEOPLE Magazine

"the future of this country's literature"
The CBC

"bursts onto the literary scene"
Maclean's

"dazzling ... a talent to watch"
The Times of London

"beautifully written"
The Washington Post

Selected Praise