Greg Hollingshead is the author of Bedlam, The Roaring Girl, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and The Healer, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of writing programs at the Banff Centre.
Greg Hollingshead is the author of Bedlam, The Roaring Girl, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and The Healer, which won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of writing programs at the Banff Centre.
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