Katherine Govier

I almost never write non-fiction anymore, maybe because the more that I publish, the happier I am to stay behind the mask of fiction. It was luck, however, when Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson wrote to me asking for a piece on secrets, that I had just finished the short story "Wild Roses".

I have published six novels and three short story collections: The Truth Teller, Angel Walk, Random Descent and The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery are all available in Vintage Canada paperback. I have also edited Without a Guide, an anthology of women’s travel stories, which has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland and Canada. In 1997 I won Canada’s Marian Engel Award for a Woman Writer in Mid-Career; in 1992 I won the City of Toronto Book Award for Hearts of Flame. In 1998 I was named Distinguished Alumni by the University of Alberta. I was born in Edmonton and live in Toronto. I have taught English and Creative Writing at Ryerson Polytechnical University and York University. My radio dramas have been broadcast on CBC Radio and my many reviews and features have appeared in Time magazine, Harpers & Queen, and most major Canadian newspapers and magazines.

I am proud that my two children are nearly out of their teens and that I have a brown belt in kobudo, a classical Japanese martial art using weapons.

You can visit my web site at www.govier.com

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