Kathy Page
Kathy Page was born in London and has spent much of her life there, but is currently living with her husband and two children on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. She has a BA from York University and an MA in creative writing from UEA and has taught fiction writing in universities in the UK, Finland and Estonia. She has held long-term writer’s residencies in schools and a variety of other institutions and communities, including a fishing village and a men's prison. Although primarily a novelist, Kathy has also written scripts for radio, television and film and her short fiction is widely anthologised and collected in As In Music, (Methuen). Her fifth novel, The Story of My Face, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) was long-listed for the 2002 Orange Prize. Her themes are loss, survival, transformation: the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good chance. Her latest novel, Alphabet was published in 2004.
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