Jack Hodgins was born in Comox on Vancouver Island in 1938, and raised in the logging community of Merville. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, he moved--with his wife Dianne--to Nanaimo, where he taught high school English until 1979. He has been a writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University and the University of Ottawa, and since 1983, has been teaching fiction workshops in the Department of Writing, University of Victoria.
PUBLICATIONS:
The Marken Charm. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
A Passion for Narrative: A guide for writing fiction. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994.
Over Forty in Broken Hill. Brisbane: University of Queensland, 1992; Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1979.
The Invention of the World. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1977.
AWARDS:
Commonwealth Literature Prize, regional winner, 1988.
