About

Her debut novel TRIPTYCH has been nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards,  won the San Francisco Book Festival award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly.

Other publications include poems with ‘In My Bed Magazine’ and poems in the international literary magazine The White Wall Review, as well as articles in Japan’s Fukuoka Now magazine and Reader’s Digest’s Our Canada Magazine. She won the award for Best Short Story of 2007  from Dragon*Con’s Stargate Offworld Zine, and her sci-fi novella “Back” was published with Silverthought Press in the 2008 Spring quarter.  Her short story “The Once And Now-ish King” is available in the Dragon Moon Press Anthology “When the Hero Comes Home“ (July, 2011). The Dark Side Of The Glass, a satirical look at fandom, vampire-cop-detectives, and the Toronto film industry, will be published by Double Dragon Press in June 2012, and her short story “Maddening Science” will appear in the Dragon Moon Press anthology “When the Villain Comes Home” (August 2012).

Further publications will be announced when they may be made public.

JM appears in Leaving Mundania, a documentary about cosplay culture by Jiro C. Okada, and The Maud Squad, a documentary about Anne of Green Gables fandom by Lisa Lightbourn-Lay. She was a guest panelist on the SPACE Channel’s premier original show ”InnerSPACE” during the Doctor Who Live Finale Panel Discussion.  JM was a founding cohost of the G33kN3rdD0rk Podcast on Dorkshelf.com with superstar comic Gavin Stephens and nerd supreme Jeff Brown, and was the host of HardcoreNerdity.com’s  short-run specialty podcast ”GeekU“.  Sometimes she acts, too, but that’s mostly just for fun!

She has presented three academic papers on fan behaviour at international conferences (San Fransisco, Cardiff, Toronto), was in the semi-finals of the American Accolades Screenwriting competition in 2004 and had a theatrical play in festival in 2001. A reprise performance of that play is forthcoming. 2010  saw the debut of her children’s play “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman“, based on the hilarious MG adventure novel of the same name by Adrienne Kress.

The Ontario Science Centre featured one of her costumes (a steampunked KittyPryde/ShadowCat from Marvel’s X-Men) in an exhibition on the Steampunk genre that ran from March 4th – May 23rd 2011 at the Ontario Science Centre in their !dea Gallery space.

J.M. studied playwriting with Colin Taylor (Tarragon Theatre, Toronto) and Daniel David Moses (“Almighty Voice and His Wife”, “Talks With Bear”, etc.), literary theory and criticism with David Fancy (“Khalida”, and lauded scholar), short story writing with Robert Alexander (“January 28, 1986″, “Wild Rose Country”, etc.), and several other writing workshops and writers groups. She had the honour of attending “Author, Author!” at the age of eight, a conference that pairs youth writers with published mentors.

She had the extreme honour of presenting the Joe Shuster Award for Excellence in Canadian Comic Book Creators for Best Writer in 2009, and Best Writing at the 2010 Constellation Awards, and Best Series at the 2011 Constellations.

J.M. Frey holds a BA in Dramatic Literature, and a Masters of Arts from the joint Ryerson and York University Communications and Culture program. Her research interests include fancrafting, cosplay, author avatars in online literature, and she is the principal investigator on the Swirlygate Project, a satire of common science fiction gender and genre clishes.

She also has an addiction to scarves, Doctor Who, and tea, which may or may not all be related. Her life’s ambitions are to have step foot on every continent (only 3 left! Look out, penguins), and to perform a duet with John Barrowman.

For media who would like official headshots or promotional photos for use, please visit the Promotional Photos Gallery, or download the full press kit (includes complete bibliography and filmography): JM Frey – Press Kit – 2012

JM Frey is represented by Evan Gregory of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency