Kate Bird‘s essays and flash nonfiction have been published in Prairie Fire, Queen’s Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, The Sun, The Walrus, and other literary magazines.
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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