Kate Bird
BIO
Biography

A graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, Kate’s literary nonfiction has been published in Queen’s Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The Humber Literary Review, The Sun,and other literary journals. She won third prize in the 2022 Prairie Fire MRB Creative Non-Fiction contest, her essays were longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize and the Edna Staebler Personal Essay contest, and she was featured on Writers Radio. 

Kate co-edited, with Betsy Warland and Seema Shah, the anthology Off the Map: Vancouver Writers with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues, published in 2025 by Bell Press. 

A lifelong photographer whose professional career was also photo based, Kate is currently completing a book of personal essays that includes photographs. You can find her at katebird.ca

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City: Vancouver, Province/Territory: British Columbia
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