Curtis John McRae is the author of Quietly, Loving Everyone (2025), a debut collection of short stories. He is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University on a scholarship. McRae divides his time between NYC and Montreal.

McRae was selected as one of the 2026 Writers’ Trust rising stars under the mentorship of Michael Winter. He is the fiction editor at Véhicule Press and the co-founder & publisher of yolk. He won the 2021/22 David McKeen Award, was longlisted for the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Fiction Contest, received an honorable mention in the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe award, and was a finalist in the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation contest for emerging young writers. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and others.

Curtis has briefly lived in Ireland, Newfoundland, and British Columbia, and has worked as a potter, papermaker, farmhand, cook, cherry picker, horticulture worker, and pizza delivery driver on skis. He maintains that while writing, he once levitated from his chair.