
Born in Toronto and educated in Toronto and London, Greg has published four story collections and three novels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and former director of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre. He has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and is a Member of the Order of Canada. He and his partner Rosa Spricer, a psychologist in private practice, now retired, have one son, David Hollingshead, a professor at MacEwan University. They live in Toronto.