Rick Maddocks

Rick Maddocks’s collection of linked stories, Sputnik Diner, was published by Knopf/Vintage Canada. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and in such anthologies as Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction. Rick is also a singer/songwriter, releasing two albums with The Beige. His experimental opera The Meal premiered at the PuSh Festival in 2011 and was restaged in 2012 at Pacific Theatre. His interdisciplinary project, Sun Belt, launched the book/ album Cabalcor in 2015. He’s currently working on a novel and is releasing an album, Songs from the Black Sand, in late 2019.