Myrna Kostash lives in Edmonton, Alberta where she works full-time as a non-fiction writer of books, magazine articles, and radio documentaries, and occasional lecturer and teacher of creative writing. Her most recent writer-in-residency was as the Haig Brown Writer in Residence in Campbell River, BC., 2006-7.
She is a past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and Chair of The Writers Union of Canada. She is founder and current President of the Creative Nonfiction Collective. She serves as community representative on the Board of the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta, and is a volunteer barista at The Carrot, a community arts cafe.
When she is not travelling, she lives in a condo overlooking the North Saskatchewan River.
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The Frog Lake Reader. NeWest Press, 2009
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Desire and Taboo (contributor). Seal, 2007
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Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan River. Coteau, 2005
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The Next Canada: In Search of the Future Generation. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000.
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The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir. Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 1998.
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Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
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Letters From Kiev (translator). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies; St Martin's Press, 1992
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No Kidding: Inside the World of Teenage Girls. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987.
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Long Way From Home: The Story of the Sixties Generation in Canada. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1980.
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All of Baba's Children. NeWest Press, 1978; 1987
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| City of Edmonton's Salute to Excellence Arts and Culture Hall of Fame, 2009
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| Publishers Prize, Saskatchewan Book Awards for Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan River, 2006
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| Queen's Jubilee medal for contribution to the arts, 2002.
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| Finalist, Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, 2001.
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| Shortlisted, National Magazine Awards, 1997.
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| Writers' Guild of Alberta, best non-fiction, 1994, 1988.
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| Canadian Magazine Award, silver medal, 1985.
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