DAVE MARGOSHES is a full-time writer who lives in Regina. He writes fiction, poetry and nonfiction, for adults and kids, and works occasionally as a freelance journalist, as a teacher of writing, and as an editor. He's won a number of awards, including the Stephen Leacock Prize for Poetry in 1996, and in 2009 was a finalist for the Journey Prize.

His collection of stories, Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories, was named Book of the Year at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, where it also won the Regina Book Award. The collection was also a finalist for the ReLit Award.

He’s also published four other story collections: Fables of Creation, Long Distance Calls, Nine Lives, and Small Regrets; three novels: Drowning Man, I’m Frankie Sterne, and We Who Seek: A Love Story; a biography, Tommy Douglas: Building the New Society; and five volumes of poetry, Purity of Absence, Northwest Passage, Walking at Brighton, and The Horse Knows the Way, which came out in 2009, and Dimensions of an Orchard, out in spring 2010.

Some of his stories and poems spring from his days at an itinerant journalist. Margoshes worked for daily newspapers in eight cities, including San Francisco, New York, Calgary and Vancouver, covering everything from politics to murder to cat shows. He's also taught journalism.

He's had stories and poems published in dozens of magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States (included six times in Best Canadian Stories), had work broadcast on CBC, and given readings across the country. He's taught creative writing and led creative writing workshops at various locations, and for various age groups. In 2001-02, he was writer in residence at the Saskatoon Public Library; in 1995-96, he had a similar post in Winnipeg.

Updated April, 2010