Born in London, England, Kathy Page now lives in BC. She has her BA from York (England) and her MA in writing from the University of East Anglia. A novelist and widely anthologised short-story writer, she has also written for television and radio. Her themes are loss, survival, and transformation: the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good chance. Her fifth novel, The Story of My Face, was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and is optioned for a feature film. The sixth, Alphabet, was nominated for a Governor General's award in 2005. Her latest title, The Find, 2010, is her first novel set in Canada: a story about discovery, inheritance and fate, and a moving exploration of the possibilities that hide within a seemingly impossible relationship.
Kathy Page has taught fiction writing at Universities in England, Finland and Estonia, and held residencies in schools and a variety of other institutions/communities, including a fishing village and a men’s prison.
Phoenix Books, TWUC's reprint service, reprinted Kathy Page's earlier novel Franke Styne & the Silver Man, and her collection of stories, As in Music. These can be purchased online via her website, www.KathyPage.info
PUBLICATIONS:
The Find. McArthur & Company, 2010
Alphabet. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004.
The Story of My Face. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.
Frankie Styne and the Silver Man. London: Methuen, 1992.
As In Music. London: Methuen, 1990.
Island Paradise. London: Methuen/Minerva, 1988.
AWARDS:
Bridport Short Story Prize for My Beautiful Wife, 1994.
Arts Council Major Bursary, 1994.
Fellowship, Hawthornden International Writers' Retreat, 1992.
Frankie Styne and the Silver Man. London: Methuen, 1992.