KENNETH J. HARVEY has worked as an assistant film editor, graphic designer, magazine editor, short order cook, trade show promoter and amusement park manager.

He is the author of thirteen books (novels, essays, poetry, biographies and short stories) which have been published in several countries. His first biography, Little White Squaw:A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction and Reconciliation (co-written with Eve Mills Nash) was recently released by Beach Holme in Vancouver. The Town that Forgot How to Breathe,his fifth novel, will be released by Raincoast Books in Spring 2003.

He has been nominated for the international Commonwealth Writers Prize for his short story collection,Directions for an Opened Body (originally published in 1990 by Mercury and reissued in 1996 by Reed Books/Minerva/M & S),and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award for Brud (Little, Brown, 1992).

His editorials appear frequently in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Globe & Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Province, Halifax Daily News and Toronto Star.

In 2000, he founded The ReLit Awards. The ReLits (short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature...) promote books published by independent Canadian publishers.

He is a member of PEN (which works to free imprisoned writers in repressive countries) and the Writers' Union of Canada, and is profiled in Canadian Who's Who 2002 (University of Toronto Press).

Harvey has held the prestigious post of Writer in Residence at both the University of New Brunswick and Memorial University.

He lives in Burnt Head, an outport in Newfoundland.