Connie Kuhns
BIO
Biography

Connie Kuhns has a forty-year history as an essayist, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. Her essay Strange Women (Geist 95), about women in Vancouver's early punk scene, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Last Day in Cheyenne (Geist 84) was named a 'Notable Essay of 2012' in the Best American Essay Series and a finalist for a Western Magazine Award, and other essays have been finalists in publications ranging from the LA Review to Prism International to the New York Times Modern Love column and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.

Her photographs have been published in the Washington Post, the Independent UK, Globe and Mail, Geist, Herizons, and illustrated her interviews and essays, album and CD covers. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Salt Spring Island National Arts Prize, receiving the award for Outstanding Work by a Salt Spring Artist for her photograph "Canadian Farmhouse".

For fifteen years, Kuhns was the producer and host of the radio show Rubymusic on CFRO Radio, Vancouver, later with a corresponding stage at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Her interviews and commentaries have been published/produced in Geist, the Georgia Straight, Hot Wire, Fuse, Herizons, CBC Television, CBC Radio, the Vancouver Sun, the Province and a host of other periodicals and anthologies. She is a recipient of the Dan MacArthur Award of Merit for Excellence in Radio News Broadcasting. A collection of her music journalism Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture was published in 2023 by Caitlin Press.

ADDRESS
City: Salt Spring Island, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
GENRE
Essayist. Music journalist. Photographer.
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Year
2023
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Salt Spring Artist Award
Publication
Salt Spring National Art Prize/ Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Year
2021
Name
Frank McCourt Memoir Prize (Honorable Mention)
Publication
the Southampton Review
Year
2019
Name
Modern Love at 13! Top 13 Love Stories in 13 Words
Publication
New York Times
Year
2017
Name
Los Angeles Review LIterary Awards: 1st runner up Creative Non-Fiction
Publication
LA Review
Year
2016
Name
National Magazine Awards: Finalist "Strange Women"
Publication
National Magazine Awards
Year
2015
Name
The Best American Essays Series: Notable Essay "Last Day in Cheyenne"
Publication
Best American Essays Series
Year
2012-13
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