Fred Stenson, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Fred Stenson is a prolific Alberta writer who has been on the faculty of several writing programs at The Banff Centre, and was director of the Wired Writing Studio in 2001 and 2002. His writing credits include a variety of scripts, fiction, and non-fiction. He is a two-time winner of the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association Award for best documentary script. His latest of twelve books of fiction and non-fiction, The Trade (Douglas & McIntyre 2000), was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant McEwan Writer’s Award, The City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. It is also on the long list for the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Award. Stenson was born and raised on a farm and cattle ranch in southwestern Alberta. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Contributor to:
Thing Feigned or Imagined: The Craft in Fiction (contributor)
First Chapter (contributor)

Stenson has been on the faculty of Writing & Publishing at The Banff Centre.

Publications:
The Trade, Douglas & McIntyre, 2000
The Last Stack, Cetac West, 2000
RCMP: The March West, GAPC, 1999
Teeth, Coteau Books, 1994
The Story of Calgary, Fifth House, 1994
Working Without a Laugh Track, Coteau Books, 1990
Last One Home, NeWest, 1988
Waste to Wealth, CGPA, 1985
Rocky Mountain House, NC, 1985
Lonesome Hero, Macmillan Canada, 1974