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
in Vancouver.
Livingston is the author of two novels and a book of poetry.
woman. Greedy Little Eyes, a collection of short fiction will be published by Random House in June 2010.
Her shorter work has appeared in such publications as Event; 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) Prism International; Quarry; Rialto (U.K.) Spoon River Poetry Review (U.S.) sub-TERRAIN; This; TickleAce; Toronto Life; Verandah (Australia); Westerly (Australia); Vancouver Sun; Windsor Review; Zygote,
She has been anthologized in: Dropped Threads 2 (Vintage Canada), 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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