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Kate Bird‘s essays and flash creative nonfiction pieces have been published in several literary magazines including Prairie Fire, Queen’s Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, The Sun, and The Walrus. Other essays and flash pieces have won and been shortlisted and longlisted for literary contests.
A graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, Kate is the author of the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos From a Decade That Changed the City, which was nominated for a 2016 British Columbia Historical Writing Award, as well as City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots, and Strikes, and Magic Moments in BC Sports: A Century in Photos. She’s been the researcher for numerous books, including Shelley Fralic’s Making Headlines: 100 Years at The Vancouver Sun, which won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award at the 2013 BC Book Prizes, and Stephen Hume’s Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia
A professional librarian with a Masters of Library & Information Science from the University of Western Ontario, a B.A. in Art History from the University of British Columbia, and a diploma in photography from Emily Carr College of Art, Kate worked as a news research librarian at The Vancouver Sun and The Province for twenty-five years.
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