I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley

In this dark comedy taking place over twenty-four hours, a blizzard pummels Toronto as a beloved high school teacher coerces his teenage student to assist in his violent suicide forcing the student, his best friend, the friend’s bulimic mom, and a down-low cop to outrun each other, the storm, and the ghosts haunting them. I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley is a breathtaking and hilarious novel about the lengths people will take to erase themselves in order to matter.

Them Vernon is a writer, actor, and academic. After training in Chicago, he went on to act in various Hollywood productions, including The Fugitive, Seinfeld, and General Hospital. He teaches screenwriting at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and privately at Writers’ Circle TO. He recently appeared in Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Killjoys and elsewhere. Vernon is a Vanier doctoral candidate in English-Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent publications include the novel The Drifts (Coach House, 2010). An advocate for under-served youth & adults, he co-founded Arts Expand, a Los Angeles-based arts education initiative. He contributes to blogs, including American Refugee, Notes on Arts Educations, Words Matter, and Huffington Post. He moved from the States to Toronto as a queer refugee with his partner, Vajdon.