Craig Davidson (born 1975) is a highly versatile Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and memoirist whose visceral prose expertly spans heavy-hitting literary realism and terrifying body horror. Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, he graduated from the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop before basing his creative career in Toronto. Davidson vaulted into the spotlight with his debut 2005 short-story collection, Rust and Bone, which was adapted into a Golden Globe-nominated French feature film starring Marion Cotillard, followed by his Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted novel, Cataract City. He is equally celebrated for his touching 2016 Canada Reads finalist memoir, Precious Cargo, and his Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize-finalist novel, The Saturday Night Ghost Club. Under his famously gritty horror pseudonym, Nick Cutter, he has garnered a massive global cult following for skin-crawling bestsellers like The Troop (currently in film development), The Deep, The Queen, and his latest youth-reversing wilderness horror novel, The Dorians (2026).
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