Stephen Osborne (born September 11, 1947) is a

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writer and editor. He is the author of ''Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World'', and since 1990 has been an editor of ''

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'' magazine.

Life and work

The son of a doctor, Osborne was born in 1947 in Pangnirtung on

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(now

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), and grew up in

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and

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.Robert Fulford web site
/ref> 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

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ise. He has also been President of both the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers. Osborne co-founded Geist in 1990 with Mary Schendlinger. As well as editing the magazine, he writes an essay for each issue and also publishes photographs under the alias Mandelbrot. Osborne 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''.CBC Literary Awards web site
/ref> 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'' Arsenal Pulp Press.
Gives biography. Geist.com/phototaxis.
Gives biography. Osborne currently lives in

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Bibliography

*''Ice & fire : dispatches from the new world, 1988-1998'', (Selected personal essays) 1999 (Arsenal Pulp Press) *''Social Credit for Beginners: An Armchair Guide'' (Co-author) (A Satirical History of Social Credit) 1987 (Pulp Press) *''Little Red Books'' (17 volumes) beginning with ''Quotations from Chairman Zalm'' in 1989 Library Thing.
Gives bibliography. *"Introduction", in "The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich", 2008 (University of Manitoba Press)

References

External links

Author web siteGeist biography of Stephen OsborneGeist magazine web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Osborne, Stephen 1947 births Living people Canadian magazine editors Canadian non-fiction writers Writers from the Northwest Territories People from Pangnirtung Writers from Nunavut Writers from Vancouver