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Kathy Page Kathy Page, born 8th April 1958 in London, England, is novelist who also writes short fiction, creative non-fiction and screenplay. In 2001 she and her family moved to Canada and settled on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Kathy Page’s sixth novel, Alphabet, inspired by her year as Writer in Residence in a UK men’s prison, was short-listed for a Governor General’s Award in 2005; The Story of My Face, 2002, a complex novel  set partly in the UK in 1969 and partly in nineteenth century Finland at the time of the Awakenings, was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002. Kathy Page earned her BA in English and Related literate from the University of York, and an MA in creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She facilitates writing workshops, has taught fiction writing at universities in both Europe and North America. She teaches at Vancouver Island University and mentors emerging writers online.

Bibliogrpahy

Novels: Back in the First Person (1986) ISBN-86068-637-X The Unborn Dreams of Clara Riley (1987) ISBN 0-86068-901-8 Island Paradise (1988)ISBN 0-7493-9071-9 Frankie Styne & the Silver Man (1992) ISBN-413-66590-9 The Story of My Face (2002), ISBN 0-297-60785-5 Alphabet, (2005), ISBN 0-297-60788-X The Find (2010), ISBN 978_55278_837-0

Non-fiction: ‘The Right Thing to Say’, in Ars Medica, vol 6 No 1 ‘Five Times’, in Great Expectations, ed. Lisa Moore & Dede Crane, Anansi, 2008 ‘The Butterfly’, in Humane Prisons and How to Run Them, ed. David Jones, Radcliffe, UK, 2007. ‘Success?’ in Panurge 15 1996. ‘The Family Inside’, Prison Writing, Vol 1, no 1 1992; ‘The Pike’s Heart’, The Traveller, 1992.

Short Fiction: As In Music (1990) ISBN978-0-9690796-6-8 Contains ‘I like to Look’, ‘Of Romance,’ ‘Saving Grace,’ ‘The Ancient Siddanese,’ ‘Lambing,’ ‘The Silver Man,’ ‘The Kissing Disease,’ ‘The Reason for Geese,’ ‘The Biggest  Memory in the World,’ ‘Just Dial This Number,’ ‘Anaesthesia,’ ‘Faith,’ ‘Nursery Versery,’ ‘As In Music’.

Short Fiction, broadcast on BBC Radio: The Right Thing to Say, 2006; Growing, 2005; It is July, Now, 2005; Woodsmoke, 1994,  Learning the Violin, 1993; Faith, 1990.

Short Fiction, journals/anthologised: ‘Rosemary’: in The Lighted Room,  Ed. Margo Daly, Bloomsbury, 2002. ‘It is July, Now’, in 10 Women Writers, Ed. Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Reclam, 2000. ‘Of Paradise’: in Other Voices, Vol. 13 Millennium issue, 2000 ‘Loganberries’: in Signals,  Ed. Jane Rye, London Magazine Editions, 1999. ‘The Question’: in Cheatin’ Heart,  Eds Longinotto & Rosenthall,  Serpent’s Tail, 1999. ‘It is July Now’: in Wild Ways, Eds Margo Daly & Jill Dawson, Sceptre, 1998. ‘Bees’: in New Writing Six,  Eds A.S Byatt &  Peter Porter,  Vintage, 1997. ‘It is July, Now’: in New Writing Five, Ed  Christopher Hope and Peter Porter, Vintage, 1996. ‘My Beautiful Wife’: in Back Rubs, Ed. Alison Campbell et al, Serpent’s Tail, 1996. ‘Woodsmoke’ in Class Work, Ed. Malcolm Bradbury, Heinemann, 1995 (first published in Sunk Island New Writing, 1994). ‘I like to Look’ in The Wild Woman Reader, Ed. Sue Thomas, Overlook, 1994. ‘The Gymnasium’ in Best Short Stories 1993, Ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes, Heinemann, 1993. First published in Passport 4, 1992 ‘Wonder’ in New Writing Two, Ed. Malcolm Bradbury & Andrew Motion, Minerva, 1993. ‘The Ancient Siddanese’ in The Minerva Anthology of C20 Women's Writing Ed. Judy Cooke Minerva, 1991. ‘The Green Table’, Panurge 10, 1989; ‘The Garden’ Everywoman, 1988; ‘Leaf in the Works’ and ‘The Politics of the Superficial’  in Writing Women V1, no3, 1982.