Kate Bird

Kate Bird's creative nonfiction has been published in Queen's Quarterly, The Sun, Prairie Fire, The Humber Literary Review, and other literary journals. She recently received a Professional Development grant from Access Copyright to work on a collection of personal essays. A professional librarian with a master's degree in Library and Information Science, Kate has been the researcher for numerous books, including Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun, which won the Bill Duthie...See more

Kate Bird's creative nonfiction has been published in Queen's Quarterly, The Sun, Prairie Fire, The Humber Literary Review, and other literary journals. She recently received a Professional Development grant from Access Copyright to work on a collection of personal essays. A professional librarian with a master's degree in Library and Information Science, Kate has been the researcher for numerous books, including Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun, which won the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award at the 2013 BC Book Prizes, and Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia. She is the author of three books of newspaper photography, including the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from A Decade That Changed the City, which was nominated for the 2016 British Columbia Historical Writing Award, as well as City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes and Magic Moments in BC Sports: A Century in Photos. You can find Kate at katebird.ca See less