About Stephen Osborne
Born 1947. Stephen Osborne is a Canadian editor and writer.
Stephen Osborne (born September 11, 1947) is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, and since 1990 has been an editor of Geist magazine.
Life and work The son of a doctor, Osborne was born in 1947 in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), and grew up in Edmonton, Kamloops and Vancouver.
In 1971, he co-founded Arsenal Pulp Press, a literary book publisher based in Vancouver. He's also won the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award.
He has written introductions to the books The North End (photographs by John Paskievich) and One Ring Circus: Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues.
Osborne currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Canadian writer
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Stephen Osborne was born on 11 September 1947 in Pangnirtung.
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