Author: Seema Shah

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