Billie Livingstone
Billie Livingston is a fiction writer, poet, and sometime essayist. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and has since lived in Tokyo, Hamburg, Munich, Los Angeles and London, England. Her first employment was filling the dairy coolers in a
Macs Milk. She went on to work varying lengths of time as a
file clerk, receptionist, cocktail waitress, model, actor, chocolate
sampler, and booth host at a plumber's convention. She lives with
her husband in Vancouver.
Livingston has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize for fiction and the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Her recent story collection, Greedy Little Eyes, was cited by The Globe and Mail as one of 2010's best books and subsequently won the CBC's Bookie Award as well as the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Best Short Story Collection. Her YA novella,The Trouble with Marlene has been optioned for a feature film by Director, Ana Valine of Rodeo Queen Pictures.
Ledig House/Art Omi and The Banff Centre for the Arts. She has conducted presentations and creative writing workshops for The Vancouver School Board, The Burnaby School Board, The Women’s Correctional Centre, The Writers Union of Canada, the Yukon Writer’s Festival, Surrey International Writer’s Conference and The Victoria School of Writing,
Her shorter work has appeared in such publications as Event; Exile; Fiddlehead; Fireweed; Flare; Geist; Going Down Swinging (Australia) Imago (Australia); Malahat Review; The New Quarterly; Orbis (U.K.); Planet:The Welsh Internationalist (Wales); Poetry Ireland Review (Ireland); Prairie Fire; Prism International; Quarry; Rialto (U.K.) Spoon River Poetry Review (U.S.) sub-TERRAIN; This; TickleAce; Toronto Life; Verandah (Australia); The Walrus; Westerly (Australia); Vancouver Sun; Windsor Review; Zygote.
Livingston has been anthologized in: Dropped Threads 2 (Vintage Canada), Ear Lit 6, an audio short fiction anthology (Rattling Books); The Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland and Stewart) Northwest Edge/Deviant Fictions Anthology, (Chiasmus) Hammer and Tongs Anthology (Smoking Lung Press), Literature and the Writing Process-Canadian Edition (Prentiss Hall/Pearson Education) Netherworlds (Ripple Effect Press). Love Poems for the Media Age (Ripple Effect Press), In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 3, (Mw Enterprises), The Edges of Time (Seraphim Editions), Meltwater (Banff Centre Press), Vintage ’95 (Quarry Press)
Biography
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