Background
Stephen Guppy was born on February 10, 1951, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada to the family of a marine artist Anthony W. Guppy and Mavis R. Turner.
Stephen Guppy
Stephen Guppy holds a Bachelor of Arts earned in 1977 from the University of Victoria.
Stephen Guppy also completed a British Columbia Teacher’s Certificate at the University of Victoria.
Stephen Guppy holds a Master of Arts received in 1988 from the University of Victoria.
Stephen Guppy holds a Bachelor of Arts earned in 1977 from the University of Victoria.
Stephen Guppy also completed a British Columbia Teacher’s Certificate at the University of Victoria.
Stephen Guppy holds a Master of Arts received in 1988 from the University of Victoria.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Catcher-Stephen-Guppy/dp/088982021X/?tag=2022091-20
1989
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Date-Angel-Diane-Arbus/dp/1896860370/?tag=2022091-20
1998
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Heaven-Stephen-Guppy/dp/0919897797/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Set in the 1960s, The Fire Thief is the story of Sonny Wh...)
Set in the 1960s, The Fire Thief is the story of Sonny Wheeler, who grew up in a time of '50s conformity that exploded into revolution, protest, and days of rage for many of his generation. When his mother remarries, teenaged Sonny moves with his new family to Danforth, Washington, a city that exists solely because of the nuclear power plant humming at its core.
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Thief-Novel-Stephen-Guppy/dp/0887621422/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(These nine stories from Stephen Guppy poignantly evoke th...)
These nine stories from Stephen Guppy poignantly evoke the complex emotional terrain of children and teenagers from broken or dysfunctional families. These brilliantly conjured stories include a young Mormon girl from Utah and her mother who run away from the girl?s stepfather only to drive into the radioactive dust cloud from an atomic bomb test. Two brothers in Edmonton disappear as their mother tries to protect them from a polio epidemic.
https://www.amazon.com/Work-Mercy-Stories-Stephen-Guppy/dp/0887622232/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Have you ever been overwhelmed by acronyms? Confused by t...)
Have you ever been overwhelmed by acronyms? Confused by technology? Inundated by irony, post-modernism, meta-ness and inexplicable catch phrases? If so, you are not alone. Like I Care is a novel that explores the interconnected stories of a large cast of characters, none of whom has any clue how to act in a world where feelings are best expressed in three letters or less, and - even though it changes constantly and no one knows what exactly it is – being cool is the only currency that seems to be worth anything. A funny, biting and prescient satire of modern times, Stephen Guppy has written a novel that asks the question "What the Hell is going on, and why don’t I understand any of it?"
https://www.amazon.com/Like-I-Care-Stephen-Guppy/dp/1926639537/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources o...)
Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t often dealt with in any practical way. Writing and Workshopping Poetry focuses on all three phases of the process of composition: finding the material; building and developing the poem from rough draft to complete work; editing and refining.
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Workshopping-Poetry-Constructive-Introduction/dp/1554813085/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Stephen Guppy was born on February 10, 1951, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada to the family of a marine artist Anthony W. Guppy and Mavis R. Turner.
Stephen Guppy holds Bachelor of Arts earned in 1977 and Master of Arts received in 1988 degrees from the University of Victoria, where he also completed a British Columbia Teacher’s Certificate.
Stephen Guppy worked for several publishing firms before moving on to the education sphere. He taught high school in Qualicum Beach before becoming a college professor at Vancouver Island University, previously known as Malaspina University-College, in Nanaimo, where he taught in the Creative Writing and English departments starting in 1986; he retired in 2016.
Guppy first published a book of poems, Ghostcatcher, and co-edited Rainshadow: Stories from Vancouver Island with Ron Smith. He then released a collection of seven comic stories of Vancouver Island, Another Sad Day At The Edge Of The Empire, which frequently lampoons English colonialism in the realm of magic realism. His stories and poems have appeared in Best Canadian Stories, the Journey Prize Anthology, the Prentice-Hall Guide for Student Writers, and numerous periodicals including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Event, Grain, Stand, Hawaii Review, and Ambit.
Guppy lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
(Set in the 1960s, The Fire Thief is the story of Sonny Wh...)
2004(Have you ever been overwhelmed by acronyms? Confused by t...)
2012(These nine stories from Stephen Guppy poignantly evoke th...)
2006(Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources o...)
2016Guppy married a painter and writer Nelly Kazenbroot in 1986. They have two children: Sebastian Rhys and Isabel Jane.
