Kathy Page

Kathy Page (born 8 April 1958) is a British-Canadian writer.

She is the author of seven previous novels, including The Story of My Face (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002) and Alphabet (nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in Canada in 2005), as well as Canada's Giller Prize-shortlisted story collections Paradise & Elsewhere (2014) and The Two of Us (2016). 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, British Columbia, Canada.

Early life Kathy Page was born on 8 April 1958 in London, U.K. She received 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 (University of London), distance learning tutor (Open College of the Arts, in the U.K.), writer in residence (University of Vaasa, Finland, among others), writing workshop instructor (Banff Centre) and carpenter/joiner. She moved with her family to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in 2001 and teaches fiction at Vancouver Island University.

Prizes and honours 1992 The Traveller Writing award 1994 Bridport Prize (for short story) 2002 Longlist, Orange Prize for Fiction (for The Story of My Face) 2005 Shortlist, Governor General's Literary Award (for Alphabet) 2011 Shortlist, ReLit Award (for The Find) 2014 Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize (for Paradise and Elsewhere) 2016 Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize (for The Two of Us) 2018 Winner, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (for Dear Evelyn)