Brett Josef Grubisic is a Canadian novelist and editor, and professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He obtained degrees from University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia He has edited one anthology of gay male pulp fiction, and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers. The former collection highlights stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream; the latter, featuring such acclaimed writers as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai, aims to redress an absence the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction. Grubisic's debut novel, The Age of Cities, was published in 2006, and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize. Set predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain evolution of a librarian as he struggles between two disparate choices, one urban and the other rural. This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Grubisic's follow-up novel, appeared in 2014. 

January 1st, 1963 in (Age 61)