Kathy Page


Kathy Page is a British-Canadian writer.
She is the author of seven previous novels, including The Story of My Face and Alphabet, as well as Canada’s Giller Prize-shortlisted story collections Paradise & Elsewhere and The Two of Us. Her latest novel, Dear Evelyn, was published in 2018 by And Other Stories in Europe and Biblioasis in North America.
She now lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Early life

Kathy Page was born on 8 April 1958 in London, U.K. She has an Honours BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users. She currently resides on Salt Spring Island with her husband, and two children.

Career

Page's 2002 book The Story of My Face, which was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K. Alphabet, published in 2005, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada in 2005. The novel The Find was published in April 2010 and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award in 2011. Her novel Paradise and Elsewhere, a collection of short stories, was published in June 2014.
Page has also worked as a university lecturer, distance learning tutor, writer in residence, writing workshop instructor and carpenter/joiner. She moved with her family to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in 2001 and teaches fiction at Vancouver Island University.

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