Terry Glavin



Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist.

Career
Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Other Press (copy editor), The Daily Columbian (reporter, columnist and assistant city editor), The Vancouver Sun (columnist), The Globe and Mail (columnist), The Georgia Straight (columnist), and The Tyee. He has been with the Ottawa Citizen since 2011. He has contributed articles to many newspapers and magazines, including Canadian Geographic, Vancouver Review, Democratiya, The National Post, Seed, Adbusters, and Lettre International (Berlin). He founded and was chief editor of Transmontanus Books, an imprint of New Star Books.

He was a sessional instructor in the Writing Department of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

In 2009, he won the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence for his books and magazine and newspaper articles.

Glavin's writing covers a wide range of regional and global topics from natural history and anthropology to current politics. His work as a journalist and writer have taken him to Central America, China, the Eastern Himalayas, the Russian Far East, Afghanistan, and Israel, and his books have been published in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. He is a signatory of the Euston Manifesto.

Glavin describes himself as a "west coast conservationist."

Awards
In 2009, Glavin was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence for contributing significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction. He has a total of eleven awards including several National Magazine Awards:


 * Best Column in a Magazine, Western Magazine Awards, 1998
 * Science, Technology and Medicine Prize, National Magazine Awards Foundation, 1998
 * Science Technology and Medicine Prize, Western Magazine Awards, 1998
 * Jack Webster Awards prize for Science and Technology, 1997
 * "Science in Society" prize from the Canadian Science Writers Association, 1996
 * Special Award for Editorial Innovation, Impact or Courage, Western Magazine Awards, 1994
 * Gold prize, Travel Writing, National Awards Foundation, 1994
 * Best Essay of the Year, National Magazine Awards Foundation, 1993
 * Best Essay, "Public Issues" Category, Western Magazine Awards
 * Science Technology and Medicine Prize, Western Magazine Awards, 1993
 * Silver Prize, National Magazine Awards