Will push a pen and strum the guitar. Arsenal junkie.
Keeper of an Aussie shepherd (and vice versa).
Deus ex caffeina since 1965.

ANDREW STEINMETZ is an author and singer-songwriter.

His latest book Because, published in 2023 is about sibling dynamics, friendship and loss, and digging for the stars with out-of-tune guitars; it’s about getting Swedish-grandparent-tinged teenage-daydreams; and also it’s a tribute to the post-punk ethos rooted in the Montreal underground music scene of the early 1980s. (See here a Youtube channel featuring a playlist of bands from this community of musicians, archival material, and book trailers.)

Other books include This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla (Biblioasis 2013) which was a finalist for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and Eva's Threepenny Theatre (Gaspereau Press 2007) which won the City of Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk, a memoir, was short-listed for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, the Quebec Writer’s Federation (QWF) First Book Award and Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction.

A life-long musician, Steinmetz formed the band Weather Permitting in 1985, and in the 1990s was a member of the alt-country band Good Cookies. The fossil records are rare but speak for themselves. These days he writes songs and records under the names Record Low and tsjchov. When opportunity knocks he’ll get involved in a project like this: Bed One.