Theodore Grace

A published poet, author, and essayist-aspirant, Theodore Grace is always for want of the written word. He has spent most of his life writing, inheriting his tendency towards storytelling from his father—a man still writing recreationally to this day—and initially found his footing with writing transformative works. Theodore then decided to throw himself headlong into the writing world: at fifteen, he realized that he wanted, quite badly, to dedicate his life to writing in any way he possibly could, following a sudden and intense infatuation with Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (he would be remiss to neglect to mention that this was in large part due to a crush on Gregory Peck’s depiction of Atticus Finch).
Since then, he’s gone on to feature in multiple literary magazines and journals, including Open Minds Quarterly and The B222 Journal, and graduated from Algonquin College from their Pre-Animation & Illustration and Creative Writing certificate programs, as well as Sheridan College’s Creative Writing & Publishing Honours Baccalaureate. He adores literary novels, referring to himself as a fan of Nabokov in particular, as well as period dramas, stories of romance, and the abstract world of metafiction, citing online ARGs (alternate reality games) and web folklore as his gateway into the genre. When he isn’t writing original work or ingesting others’ stories, he’s usually creating and reading fanfiction for his latest fixations, drawing, journalling, cooking, strength training at the gym, or lovingly tormenting his fellow writer and artist friends. Originally from the town of Carleton Place, ON, he currently lives in Greater Toronto Area with his mother and sister.

I write because I cannot imagine a world where I do not. It would be a rather feeble attempt if I ever tried.
I have always been a romantic, valuing the literary and the elegant and the passionate, and taking joy in applying that attentive style to a wide swath of stories exploring the transgressive, the macabre, the intimate, and the indulgent. I write with the imperative to be open with who I am on a raw, personal basis, finding it necessary the way that is necessary for one to scream when one is inside of a burning building—to say, “Here I am. What will you do now?” The core of my work comes from the beauty I see in this severe way of being, and at times, its inherent comedy.
I take great joy in my attention to detail, and attempt at all turns to perform research meticulously, with interest towards authenticity and immersion for a reader.
At times, I find myself biting off more than I can chew, and even then, I find myself with a more vested love for my topics of research than before—I adore challenges. My preferred mediums are those of prose and poetry, and I enjoy mixing the two. I find great affection in line edits, sharpening phrases in my work to their finest points. From Internet discourse linguistics to Nabokov, theatre and literary classics to the metafiction and unfiction authors of the new era of independent storytelling, I seek in all cases to vie for accuracy and charm.
I want to invoke the literary and the horrific, sometimes all at once, as well as explore the uncomfortable, the erotic, and the romantic. I am, plainly, a queer man—in both senses of the word—of the internet era with a foot in the literary canon’s past. Many of my works are informed by that lens of experience. That queerness then lends itself to a practice of creative intimacy and intention towards honesty, even in fiction.

—Theodore-Elizabeth “Theodore Grace” B. G. Brennen

Works

✧ The Wolf - Poem - Open Minds Quarterly - January 2022
✧ I am marrying the semi-truck that held me. - Poem - B222 Journal - April 2026
✧ The Bathroom Body - Short Story - Exit Lines Anthology - Coming June 2026

Works listed below are available on the site, but not officially published.

✧ Theseus Interrupted - Stageplay - Currently Unpublished (Site-Hosted Portfolio Piece)
✧ The Urge to Immolate - Chapbook - Limited print run, independently distributed. (Site-Hosted Portfolio Piece)
✧ “My God, She's A Boy.” Gender Aberrations and Transness as Subjects of Horror in Psycho and Sleepaway Camp (Site-Hosted Portfolio Piece)

Positions

✧ Copy Editor - Freelance - Circa Jan. 2026
✧ Intern - Part-Time - Augur Magazine - Circa Aug. 2025
✧ Pharmacy Assistant - Shoppers Drug Mart - 2022
✧ Sales Associate - PetValu Canada - 2021
✧ Digital Artist - Freelance - Circa 2018
✧ Pet Care, Childcare & Tutoring - Part-Time - Independent Contract - 2017-2019