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Cathy Jewison is
a short story writer living in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. A collection
of her Yellowknife-based stories, The Ugly Truck and Dog Contest
and Other Tales of Northern Life, was published by
Borealis Press
of Ottawa in 2009.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Cathy spent her formative years in Regina,
Saskatchewan. Her Prairie roots undoubtedly explain her horror of
large trees, looming mountains, and the damp winter cold that plagues
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After completing a
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Communications in 1983, she
worked as a newspaper copy editor in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In
1986, she moved to Yellowknife, where she worked as a reporter for the
local newspaper before joining the public service. Over the past 27
years, she has worked for the Government of the Northwest Territories
and the Government of Canada in a variety of roles, including communications officer,
manager and intergovernmental relations analyst.
Along the way, Cathy
earned a
Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education, a
Bachelor of Arts in English, and a
Master of Arts in
the Humanities. It should surprise no one to learn that, as a
child, Cathy was a compulsive acquirer of Brownie badges.
The quirkiness of life in Yellowknife
inspired Cathy to take up creative writing. She has dabbled in poetry and drama, and considered
writing the Great Canadian Novel. Suffering from exhaustion and a
shrinking attention span, she settled on the short story as her
preferred literary form. Her work has appeared in
Storyteller: Canada's Short Story Magazine, Northern Writes 7, Winners’
Circle 10,
Imprints 11, and
North by North Wit: New Canadian Humour Writing.
Cathy won the 2002 Larry Turner
Award for non-fiction from the
Valley Writers’ Guild, and first prize
in the 2002 Winners’ Circle contest, an international short story
contest organized by the Toronto Branch of the
Canadian Authors
Association. Her stories "The Prospector’s Trail" and "Sand Trap"
received honourable mentions (respectively) in Storyteller’s
2000 and 2003 Great Canadian Story Contest.
A pdf version of
Cathy's biography, hi-res author photos and cover images are
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