Cameron A Straughan

Cameron A. Straughan is an award-winning Canadian writer whose work blends surrealism, dark humour, and high-concept genre storytelling. He is the author of The Surreal Adventures of Anthony Zen, and his latest screenplay Schisma continues his fascination with cosmic horror, identity, and the uncanny. Born in a small conservative town and later diagnosed as autistic, Straughan brings a distinct outsider’s perspective to his writing — marked by vivid imagination, clean visual prose, and an absurdist edge shaped by years as a fisheries biologist, educator, and STEM specialist in a First Nations community. He is developing a PhD proposal based on his culturally responsive STEM model: Do → Reflect → Explain → Connect. As a LGBTQIA+ writer, he is committed to pushing genre storytelling into more inclusive, psychologically rich territory.