Stephen Osborne (writer)
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Stephen Osborne is a Canadian
writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, and since 1990 has been the editor of Geist
magazine.
, 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 founded the Vancouver Desktop Publishing Company in 1986, and was chairman of the Publishers Automation Committee for two years in the 1980s, during which time he helped fifty small publishing companies to computerise
. He has also been President of both the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the British Colombia Association of Magazine Publishers.
Stephen founded Geist in 1990. As well as editing the magazine, he writes an essay for each issue and also publishes photographs under the alias Mandelbrot.
Stephen published a collection of personal essays, Ice & fire: Dispatches from the New World, 1988-1998 in 1999. He was the winner of the inaugural Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing in 2004. He won the CBC Literary Award for Travel Writing in 2003 for his essay Girl Afraid of Haystacks. 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
He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, and since 1990 has been the editor of Geist
Geist (magazine)
Geist is Canada's most widely read literary magazine. Geist is published four times a year in Vancouver since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist, meaning "mind" or "spirit."...
magazine.
Life and work
Son of a doctor, Stephen was born in 1947 in PangnirtungPangnirtung, Nunavut
Pangnirtung is an Inuit hamlet, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. As of the 2006 census the population was 1,325, an increase of 3.8% from the 2001 census...
, Baffin Island
Baffin Island
Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000...
, Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
(now Nunavut
Nunavut
Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...
), and grew up in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Kamloops and Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
..
In 1971, he co-founded Arsenal Pulp Press
Arsenal Pulp Press
Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ...
, a literary book publisher based in Vancouver. He founded the Vancouver Desktop Publishing Company in 1986, and was chairman of the Publishers Automation Committee for two years in the 1980s, during which time he helped fifty small publishing companies to computerise
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
. He has also been President of both the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the British Colombia Association of Magazine Publishers.
Stephen founded Geist in 1990. As well as editing the magazine, he writes an essay for each issue and also publishes photographs under the alias Mandelbrot.
Stephen published a collection of personal essays, Ice & fire: Dispatches from the New World, 1988-1998 in 1999. He was the winner of the inaugural Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing in 2004. He won the CBC Literary Award for Travel Writing in 2003 for his essay Girl Afraid of Haystacks. 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
John Paskievich
John Paskievich is a Ukrainian-Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Paskievich's 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary Unspeakable explores stuttering...
) and One Ring Circus: Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues
He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.