M. C. Joudrey is an award winning Canadian writer, artist and designer. His second novel Of Violence and Cliché was released September 2013, followed by his collection of short stories Charleswood Road: Stories in August 2014, which was nominated for the 2015 John Hirsch Award. His novel Fanonymous was released in 2019 and won the Independent Publisher gold medal for best work of fiction for Western Canada. It was also nominated for two Manitoba Book Awards, including the Margaret Laurence Award for best work of fiction. His latest novel Marmalade Parade (Guernica Editions) releases May 1st, 2026. As a designer, his work has been awarded four Alcuin Design Book Awards and the Manuela Dias Award for Design. He is also a bookbinder and a number of his works are held in galleries internationally.


