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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Katherine Govier

Katherine was educated at the University of Alberta and York University. She holds an M.A. in English, York University, and a B.A. in Honours English , from the University of Alberta.  She is the author of 8 novels and 3 short story collections.  Her most recent works include Creation 2002 and Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage, 2004. 

In 1997 she received the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, and in 1998 she was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Alberta.  Katherine began her career as a journalist, writing for major magazines in Canada and the United Kingdom.  She has also worked in radio, adapting many of her stories and novels as radio dramas.  

At present she is Writer in Residence at the Richmond Hill Public Library. Katherine is active in her profession. She was President of PEN Canada in 1997-98, and she was a Fellow at Maclean Hunter Program for Creative Non-Fiction, Banff Center for the Arts. 

Katherine frequently travels and reads from her work.  She has spoken at the Lahti International Writers' Reunion in Finland, at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, at Cambridge University in England, at the Alberta College of Art and Design, at The Canadian Embassy in Japan, and most recently at Princeton University.