In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson introduces the town of Montclair, a fictional yet familiar suburb of Montreal. At the heart of these fourteen short stories, and with his distinctive humour and emotion, he celebrates the refusal of the monotonous, and the struggle for individuality in a bastion of boredom and conformity. Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair is an exploration of suburbia's little wild spaces, and the hearts and minds of its inhabitants. (From Exile Editions)

Mark Paterson lives in Lorraine, Que. He is the author of the short story collections Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair, A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine, and Other People's Showers, all from Exile Editions. His work has won Geist magazine's Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest, the 3Macs carte blanche Prize, and the Atwater Library's 150 Words for 150 Years contest. In 2020, his story, To Disappear Around Here, was named runner-up for The Puritan magazine's Thomas Morton Prize. Paterson was a reader for the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize.