I'm a Canadian writer and retired public health epidemiologist. I first published literary fiction in the 1990's in Grain magazine, Prairie Fire, and the Fiddlehead, and a novel, The Magpie Summer (Polestar Press). In 1998, after spending 13 years in Sweden, I returned to Saskatoon to the University of Saskatchewan to pursue a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Anthropology, and a Masters of Science in Community Health and Epidemiology.
My special interest is creative non-fiction and historical fiction. in 2018 I self-published a book called Dogwise; What We Learn From Dogs, an exploration of the dog world, based on interviews with handlers of working dogs. In the past five years I completed a nonfiction manuscript, How We Want to Be Remembered, about my genealogical research for a historical novel (John V. Hicks long manuscript award 2020). My newly completed historical novel, The Petworth Girl, is based on a relative who was a resident of Charles Dickens Urania Cottage for ex-convict women, and is currently seeking a publisher. I' am working on a second historical novel about the Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie. Other projects in the works include a book of garden writing.
My creative non-fiction stories have appeared in Prairies North Magazine, The Gardener, the Western Producer, and Harrowsmith. A general theme to my writing is exploration of the past or some little-known occupation of the present that shows how people find meaning through experience, and experience the wider world.
Author photo by James. R. Page
My special interest is creative non-fiction and historical fiction. in 2018 I self-published a book called Dogwise; What We Learn From Dogs, an exploration of the dog world, based on interviews with handlers of working dogs. In the past five years I completed a nonfiction manuscript, How We Want to Be Remembered, about my genealogical research for a historical novel (John V. Hicks long manuscript award 2020). My newly completed historical novel, The Petworth Girl, is based on a relative who was a resident of Charles Dickens Urania Cottage for ex-convict women, and is currently seeking a publisher. I' am working on a second historical novel about the Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie. Other projects in the works include a book of garden writing.
My creative non-fiction stories have appeared in Prairies North Magazine, The Gardener, the Western Producer, and Harrowsmith. A general theme to my writing is exploration of the past or some little-known occupation of the present that shows how people find meaning through experience, and experience the wider world.
Author photo by James. R. Page
