Kathy Page’s fiction includes Dear Evelyn (Writers’ Trust Prize winner), Alphabet (a Governor General’s Award finalist, and two Giller–nominated short fiction collections. Now that she faces the challenge of living with Parkinson’s disease, the ability to invent and develop fictional situations has abandoned her (or she it), replaced by a desire to explore and convey the physical realities, philosophical perplexities and many ironies of her new situation. "The Exquisite Cyclops” is part of In This Faulty Machine, her unsparing, yet at times very funny, memoir of the transformation she is undergoing, to be published by Viking Penguin on September 9, 2025.

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Image credit: Billie Woods, 2018.