Sacha Bissonnette

Sacha Bissonnette is an Afro-Trinidadian, French Canadian short story writer from Ottawa, Canada. He is a reader for the Wigleaf top 50 series. He has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Wigleaf nominated his story "Glass birds" for a 2022 pushcart prize. He recently placed third in the 2022 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary competition.

His work has appeared in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Cease, Cows, Ruminate, among other places. He has upcoming short fiction in Jellyfish, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, BULL, Terrain.org and elsewhere.

He is currently working on a short fiction anthology with the help of a National Canada Council for the Arts grant, an Ontario Arts Grant and a Youth In Culture Ottawa Grant and was recently selected for the Writer's Union of Canada - BIPOC Writer's Connect mentorship. He loves film and comfort food and tweets @sjohnb9