Kevin Patterson

KEVIN PATTERSON grew up in Manitoba, and put himself through medical school by joining the Canadian army. Now a specialist in internal medicine, he practises in the Arctic and on Vancouver Island. His first book, a memoir called The Water in Between , was a Globe Best Book and an international bestseller . Country of Cold , his debut short fiction collection, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. He is also the author of the...See more

KEVIN PATTERSON grew up in Manitoba, and put himself through medical school by joining the Canadian army. Now a specialist in internal medicine, he practises in the Arctic and on Vancouver Island. His first book, a memoir called The Water in Between , was a Globe Best Book and an international bestseller . Country of Cold , his debut short fiction collection, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Consumption , and co-editor of Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants . He lives in Salt Spring Island, BC. See less