Andrew Steinmetz
photo: Terry Byrnes
Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He is the author of a memoir, Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk (Véhicule Press, 1999) and two collections of poetry, Histories (Signal Editions, Véhicule Press, 2001), and Hurt Thyself (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005). Wardlife was short listed for the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction as well as for the 2000 Quebec Writers Federation (QWF) First Book Award and Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction. Histories was short listed for the 2001 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His poems and fiction have appeared The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, maisonneuve, The New Quarterly, and Poetry New York. He is a frequent contributor to Books in Canada and the Montreal Review of Books. As a singer-songwriter, he performed and recorded with Weather Permitting and Good Cookies, two indie rock bands. He holds a Masters of Library and Information Sciences from the Université de Montréal as well as a Masters of Arts in English Literature from the University of Toronto. Presently he is the editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press. He lives in Ottawa.
