Brian Busby is a writer and literary historian who was born, raised and educated in Montreal. Shortly after graduating from university, he was hired as one of five writers for a daytime soap opera - though he had no interest in writing for television and no real knowledge of the world of soaps. He's since written radio drama and documentary for Radio Canada International, has contributed to a number of Canadian, British and American periodicals, and has found work as an editor, ghostwriter, copywriter, bookseller, book buyer and ecrivan public. He's currently writing a biography of John Glassco, the Montreal poet, translator, memoirist and pornographer.

Brian lives with his wife and daughter in Vancouver, where he serves as President of the Federation of BC Writers.

More information can be found about Brian on his website
www.brianbusby.ca

Non-fiction:

Character Parts:
Who’s Really Who in CanLit
(Toronto, Knopf Canada, 2003, Toronto, Vintage Canada, 2004)

Question and Answer Encyclopedia Canada
(Bath, U.K., Parragon, 2003)

Anthologies:

Poetry of the Civil War
(London, Arcturus)

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems of the First World War
(London, Arcturus, 2005)

Contemporary Canada
Brian Busby and Patricia Brock, eds.
(Scarborough, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1997)

Coming to Canada
Brian Busby and Patricia Brock, eds.
(Scarborough, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1996)

Classics Canada: Books 1 - 4
Brian Busby and Patricia Brock, eds.
(Scarborough, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1994/1995)

Contributions to books:

"A Sort of Emptiness"
Bruce Meyer: Essays on His Works
(Toronto, Guernica, forthcoming 2006)

"Yaletown"
Vancouver and Victoria Colourguide (3rd ed.)
Constance Brissenden, ed. (Halifax, Formac, 2006)

"Reading George Feherling's Journals"
George Fetherling and His Works
Linda Rogers, ed (Toronto, Tightrope, 2005)

"Neil Devindra Bissoondath", "Douglas Coupland",
"Thomas King", "Dany Laferrière", "Evelyn Lau",
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Year 2000 Edition
James H. Marsh, ed. (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1999)

"The Lines on Your Face"
21 X 93
Sonja A. Skarstedt, ed. (Montreal, Nocturne, 1993)

Contributions to Periodicals (selected):

"Publishing in BC"
Canadian Children’s Book News (Winter 1997)

"In Praise of the Private Library"
Amphora, no. 105 (Autumn 1996)

"Review: Caribana by Cecil Foster"
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 28, n. 2 (1996)

"Review: Fetish by Valerie Steele"
Cameo, no. 12 (August 1996)

"Review: Bread Out of Stone by Dionne Brand"
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (1995)

"A Passage Back Home by Austin Clarke"
Kola, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1995)

"The Lure of the Faux Femmes"
Cameo, no. 8 (October 1995)

"Even a Good Library Leaves Room for a Book-keeper"
The Vancouver Sun (10 June 1995)

"Survivor of the Crossing"
The Literary Review of Canada, vol. 4, no. 6 (June 1995)