Terry Jordan

Terry Jordan, this year’s Haig-Brown Writer in Residence in Campbell River, is an award-winning fiction writer, musician, essayist and dramatist whose stage plays have been produced across the country, as well as in the US and Ireland. His book of stories It’s a Hard Cow, won a Saskatchewan Book Award and was nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize. His novel, Beneath That Starry Place was published internationally and was nominated for multiple awards. The Globe and Mail called it an “achingly beautiful book.”

Jordan taught Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, and was the first Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University. In the past he facilitated the Fiction workshop at Sage Hill Writing Experience, served as Writer in Residence at the Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg Public Libraries, and Okanagan College.

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