Greg Buium has spent more than two decades working as a journalist in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver.

His articles on culture have appeared in the Believer, the Walrus, CBC.ca, and most of Canada’s metropolitan dailies, including the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun.

Our Fractured Story, his feature-length documentary on history, memory, and digital culture, was produced for CBC Radio's Ideas in 2012.

A widely noted music critic, he has contributed to DownBeat, the Wire, and Coda, among many others. His writing on jazz and improvised music has been translated into Spanish and German and was anthologized by McSweeney’s in Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews (2014). He has written liner notes to numerous recordings for independent labels in Canada, Switzerland, and the U.K. His column, Jumpin’ In, appears quarterly in Point of Departure.

Born in Vancouver in 1969, he is a graduate of McGill and the University of Chicago, where he studied history.

He is currently writing a biography of Canadian pianist Paul Bley.