Steven Price (born in

Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. T ...

) is a Canadian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

and novelist. He graduated from the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...

with a BFA in 2000, and from the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...

with an MFA, in poetry. He teaches poetry and fiction at the University of Victoria. He lives with his partner, novelist

Esi Edugyan Esi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist.Donna Bailey Nurse"Writing the blues" ''Quill & Quire'', July 2011. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels ''Half-Blood Blues'' and '' Washington Black''. Biography Esi Edugyan was born a ...

, in

Awards

*2007 -

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as t ...

*2013 -

ReLit Award The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". '' The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundl ...

for poetry *2016 - ''By Gaslight'' longlisted for

Scotiabank Giller Prize The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition ...

*2019 - ''Lampedusa'' shortlisted for the Giller Prize

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

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J.M. Miro

Personal life

Price lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is married to Canadian novelist

. Their first child was born in August 2011, their second in 2014.Adrian Chamberlain
"Victoria writer Steven Price scores international book deal"
''Times Colonist'', November 13, 2014.

References

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