Sacha Bissonnette is an Afro-Trinidadian, French Canadian short story writer from Ottawa, Canada.
His work has been nominated three times for Best Small Fictions and twice for the Pushcart Prize. His story "How We Were Fiction" placed third in the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Competition. Additionally, his stories "The House Across the Street" and "Katie Says" were selected for Wigleaf Top 50 in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
Bissonnette's fiction has appeared in Witness Magazine, The Baltimore Review, Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, EQMM, Trampset, Terrain, Ghost Parachute, and others.
He was selected for the 2024 Sundress Publications Residency and is the winner of the 2024 Faulkner Gulf Coast Residency.
He is currently working on a short fiction collection and a comic book adaptation of one of his stories. His projects are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa. He loves film, travel, and comfort food.
Find him on X @sjohnb9