Kathy Page

Kathy Page

Kathy Page at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1958-04-08) April 8, 1958
London, United Kingdom
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British/Canadian
Genre novel, short story
Notable works The Find

Kathy Page (born April 8, 1958) is a British-Canadian writer known for the novels The Story of My Face, Alphabet, The Find, and Paradise and Elsewhere.

Early life

Kathy Page was born on April 8, 1958 in London, U.K. She has an Honours BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users.[1] She currently resides on Salt Spring Island with her husband, and two children.

Career

Page's 2002 book The Story of My Face, which was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K. Alphabet, published in 2005, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada in 2005. The novel The Find was published in April 2010 and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award in 2011. Her novel Paradise and Elsewhere, a collection of short stories, was published in June 2014.

Page has also worked as a university lecturer (University of London), distance learning tutor (Open College of the Arts, in the U.K.), writer in residence (University of Vaasa, Finland, among others), writing workshop instructor (Banff Centre) and carpenter/joiner. She moved with her family to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in 2001. She teaches fiction at Vancouver Island University.

Prizes and honours

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Anthologies

Non-fiction

References

  1. Page, Kathy. "Bio". The Official Website of Kathy Page. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  2. The Bridport Prize web site "successes" Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  3. The Guardian "Orange longlist celebrates diversity" March 20, 2002. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  4. Scotiabank Giller Prize "2014 Longlist" Retrieved September 25, 2014.

External links

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