Theodore Grace

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. I grew up in a rural area, attended the local Catholic schools, and spent a great deal of my free time writing videogame fanfiction and playing D&D with friends. This, and an extracurricular love of theatre, informed my creative life greatly, and these facets of my history always seem to find their way back in my writing.
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 - Coming April 2026
✧ The Bathroom Body - Short Story - Exit Lines Anthology - Coming April 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)

Positions

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