Latimer Redlance, Indie Author
Latimer Redlance is an author known for his beat-esque writing style, which explores themes of resilience and belonging through his experiences in various subcultures. His writing reflects on the struggles and connections of a generation shaped by disillusionment, abandonment and creative defiance. Born into the a frozen world of collapsed 70s Canada, Latimer crawled on his lips along life like an armored slug, through the 80s, finally standing upright to scream FREEDOM! in the 90s.
He writes on Substack as Obsidian Blackbird, his writings assembled into his publication, Memories of a Post-Grunge Drifter.
Now living a comfortable life of a hustling immigrant to America, never forgetting the fact that he is a ragamuffin from the streets - he still does not live a life of quiet correctness. Why he dared to tell this - Decades of being a teller of the demented tales of his life, to friends and strangers alike, at parties, and bars around the world, he got sick of repeating the stories.
By putting it all down in written form, he can now just bash people with the huge book. What nearly broke him - the many times finding himself in a foreign location freezing, alone hungry. Once again the effect of wrong turns and the bad consequences of even worse actions. The moment the book was born - one day in the Bohemian suburb of Glebe, Sydney in 1999 he sat down and wrote the story "The Gutter Boss" and emailed to a few friends. He was an aspiring 22 year old beat writer.
His debut, a memoir entitled, Gutter to the Stars, is published by Stacks Publishing for release on 5 December 2025.
