Stephen Hume

Stephen Hume is an award-winning author of nine books of poetry, essays, history and natural history, has contributed to more than a dozen anthologies and is columnist-at-large and senior writer for the Vancouver Sun. He has taught advanced workshops in creative non-fiction and the personal essay for more than a decade.

Hume's writing career covers every facet of print journalism from sports reporting to editor-in-chief of the Edmonton Journal, one of Canada's major daily newspapers. His periodical credits range from Life Magazine to Canadian Geographic. Recent books include three best-selling collections of essays. Lilies and Fireweed, released in 2004, explores the contribution women made to the shaping of British Columbia. Bush Telegraph, a collection of essays which seek to make sense of the B.C. enigma, won a B.C. 2000 Book Prize, Off the Map, a study of life at the fringes, was short listed for the Hubert Evans Award in 2002.

His newest work, A Stain Upon the Sea, co-authored with Alexandra Morton, Betty Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, won the Roderick Haig-Brown prize in 2005. In 2001, Hume became the first Canadian to receive a Dolly Connelly prize for environmental writing. He has three National Newspaper Award Citations, a C.B. Fairbairn Silver Medal, the Canadian Policy Research Award, the Marjorie Nichols Memorial Award and two Jack Webster Awards. His poetry was most recently published in Contre-Taille: Poemes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens-anglais and he recently provided lyrics for two choral works in collaboration with composer Leila Lustig.