Stephen Osborne (born September 11, 1947) is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, and since 1990 has been an editor of Geist magazine.
Life and work
The son of a doctor, Osborne was born in 1947 in Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), and grew up in Edmonton, Kamloops and Vancouver.
In 1971, he co-founded Arsenal Pulp Press, a literary book publisher based in Vancouver. He's also won the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award.
He has written introductions to the books The North End (photographs by John Paskievich) and One Ring Circus: Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues.
Osborne currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bibliography
- Ice & fire : dispatches from the new world, 1988-1998, (Selected personal essays) 1999 (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Social Credit for Beginners: An Armchair Guide (Co-author) (A Satirical History of Social Credit) 1987 (Pulp Press)
- Little Red Books (17 volumes) beginning with Quotations from Chairman Zalm in 1989
- "Introduction", in "The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich", 2008 (University of Manitoba Press)
- The Coincidence Problem: Selected Dispatches 1999-2022, 2024 (Arsenal Pulp Press)
References
External links
- Author web site
- Geist biography of Stephen Osborne
- Geist magazine web site