Greenwood (Christie) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1976
• Where—Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Education—Simon Fraser University
• Awards—
• Currently—lives in Victoria and on Galiano Island, British Columbia


Michael Christie is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, later moving to San Francisco and traveling the world as a professional skateboarder. Eventually, Christie landed in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he studied psychology at Simon Fraser University. After earning his degree, he spent several years working in social services.

In 2008 Christie enrolled in the University of British Columbia's creative writing program. Less than years later, in early 2011, Christie published his first story collection, The Beggar's Garden, which was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize.

Christie's first novel, If I Fall, If I Die, came out 2015, and Greenwood, his second, came out in 2019 it. Both novels received nominations for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Today, Christie divides his time between Victoria, BC's capital, located on Vancouver Island, and Galiano Island, some two hours north, where he lives with his wife and two sons in a timber-frame house he built himself. (Adapted from Wikipedia and the publisher. Retrieved 3/1/2020.)

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