Bill Gaston

Who is Bill Gaston?

Bill Gaston is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. Gaston, grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia. Aside from teaching at various universities, he has worked as a logger, salmon fishing guide, group home worker and, most exotically, playing hockey in the south of France. He is married with four children and lives in Victoria BC, where he teaches at the University of Victoria.

Gaston has published five novels–Tall Lives, The Cameraman, Bella Combe Journal, The Good Body, Sointula, The Order of Good Cheer, and The World. His short fiction collections are Deep Cove Stories, North of Jesus’ Beans, the critically acclaimed Sex Is Red, and Mount Appetite and Gargoyles. His memoir, Midnight Hockey, an irreverent look at oldtimer beer leagues, was published by Doubleday in 2006. He has a collection of poetry, Inviting Blindness, the plays Yardsale and I Am Danielle Steel, and has written for television. His short fiction has been published in Granta, and Tin House, broadcast nationally on the CBC, and included in Best Canadian Stories, and has won the CBC Canadian Literary Award and National Magazine Award. In 2003 he was awarded the inaugural Timothy Findley Award for a body of work.