Steven Price (writer) explained

Steven Price (born in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

He graduated from the University of Victoria with a BFA in 2000,^[1] and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, in poetry.^[2]

He teaches poetry and fiction at the University of Victoria.^[3] He lives with his partner, novelist Esi Edugyan, in Victoria, British Columbia.^[4]

Awards

• 2007 - Gerald Lampert Award^[5]
• 2013 - ReLit Award for poetry^[6]
• 2016 - By Gaslight longlisted for Scotiabank Giller Prize^[7]
• 2019 - Lampedusa shortlisted for the Giller Prize^[8]

Works

Poetry

• "Images", Canadian Literature #179: Literature & War (Winter 2003)
• The Anatomy of Keys (Brick Books, 2006),
• Omens in the Year of the Ox (Brick Books, 2012),

Fiction

• Into That Darkness (2011)
• By Gaslight (2016)
• Lampedusa (2019)
• Ordinary Monsters (2022) under the pseudonym J.M. Miro ^[9]

Personal life

Price lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is married to Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan. Their first child was born in August 2011,^[10] their second in 2014.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Communications + Marketing - University of Victoria.
2. Web site: Steven Price » Greater Victoria Public Library | Literacy, lifelong learning and community enrichment for all . June 21, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101123090028/http://gvpl.ca/readers-cafe/capital-verse/steven-price/ . November 23, 2010 .
3. http://www.cura.uvic.ca/writing/faculty/price/{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
4. Donna Bailey Nurse, "Writing the blues". Quill & Quire, July 2011.
5. Web site: About us . 2010-06-21 . 2008-11-18 . https://archive.today/20081118012455/http://www.poetsink.org/Lampert%20Memorial%20Awards.html . dead .
6. https://theprovince.com/news/winners+2013+ReLit+Awards/9312768/story.html "And the winners of the 2013 ReLit Awards are...."
7. Scotiabank Giller Prize "2016 Longlist". Retrieved September 7, 2016.
8. Deborah Dundas, "Michael Crummey, Ian Williams are in, Margaret Atwood and André Alexis are out on Giller Prize short list". Toronto Star, September 30, 2019.
9. [Robert J. Wiersema]
10. Marsha Lederman, "Esi Edugyan: A new baby, and an armful of literary-award nominations", The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2011.
11. Adrian Chamberlain, "Victoria writer Steven Price scores international book deal", Times Colonist, November 13, 2014.