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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Myrna Kostash 

Myrna Kostash is an Edmonton-based writer of nonfiction. Her most recent books are Reading the River: A Traveller’s companion to the North Saskatchewan River (2005) and the national best-seller The Next Canada:
Looking for the Future Nation (2000).  Memoirs of Byzantium is a work-in-progress.

Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Brick, Border Crossings, Descant,
The Camrose Review, Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, Geist, dandeLion, CV
II, Literatura na swiecie(Warsaw), Stozher(Skopje), and Mostovi(Belgrade).

Her essays and articles have appeared in anthologies such as The Thinking Heart: Best Canadian Essays; The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs; Why Are You Telling Me This? Eleven Acts of Intimate Journalism; Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape; Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing From Alberta; AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds; The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose and Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles.

She has taught widely, most recently in the Split Rock Arts Program of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA and Women’s Words Writing Week, University of Alberta. She has been writer-in-residence at the Regina Public Library, Saskatoon Public Library and the University of Alberta. 

In 2001 she was a finalist in the Writers’ Trust of  Canada’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.  She is a member of the Board of the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta and is active in many writers’ organizations.

Photo Credit: Richard Gishler