Born in London, England, Kathy Page now lives in BC. She gained her BA at York (England) and her MA in writing from the University of East Anglia.  

A versatile writer, Page has a long-standing interest in complex characters who struggle with their own natures and circumstances. She is interested in loss, survival, and transformation: the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good chance. Her  most recent novel, Dear Evelyn, 2018, a study of a seventy year marriage, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction. The Story of My Face, which centres on an  adolescent girl involved in an extreme religious sect, was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002. Alphabet, about a life-serving prisoner, was nominated for a Governor General's award in 2005. The Find, 2010, shortlisted for a 2011 Relit novel award, explores a paleontological  discovery in a small BC town and the  ensuing conflict over its meaning and ownership.

Kathy Page's collection of fabulist short stories, Paradise & Elsewhere  came out with Biblioasis in 2014 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next collection, The Two of Us, was also nominated for the Giller.

Kathy Page also writes creative non-fiction  and memoir. Her personal essay "That Other Country" is published in Best Canadian Essays 2023. She co-edited, with Lynne Van Luve,   In the Flesh, Twenty Writers Explore the Body, a collection of personal essays about the human body and our relationship with particular parts of it. 

Page has taught fiction writing at Universities in England, Finland and Estonia, and held residencies in schools and a variety of other institutions/communities, including a fishing village and a men’s prison. She currently works as a professor of creative writing  at Vancouver Island University. For more information, please visit her website, www.KathyPage.info