Alexi Zentner is the author of Touch and The Lobster Kings (forthcoming 2013), both from W.W. Norton & Company in the USA and Knopf Canada in Canada.

Shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award and The Center for Fiction's Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

"it takes some writers an entire
career to write a novel like Touch.
Zentner did it on his first try"
The National Post

"breathtaking"
PEOPLE Magazine

"the future of this country's literature"
The CBC

"bursts onto the literary scene"
Maclean's

"dazzling ... a talent to watch"
The Times of London

"beautifully written"
The Washington Post

Selected Praise