Kathy Page (born April 8, 1958) is a British-born writer now living in Canada. She has published seven novels since 1986. The Story of My Face, published in 2002, was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K. Alphabet, published in 2005, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada in 2005. The Find, her latest novel, was published in April 2010.
Kathy Page was born on April 8, 1958 in London, U.K. She has a Honours BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users. Page has also worked as a university lecturer (University of London), distance learning tutor (Open College of the Arts, in the U.K.), writer in residence (University of Vaasa, Finland, among others), writing workshop instructor (Banff Centre) and carpenter/joiner. She moved with her family to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in 2001. She teaches fiction at Vancouver Island University.