Kevin Armstrong

Kevin Armstrong began writing while an undergraduate at Queen’s University. He has received scholarships to the Sage Hill Writing Experience and the Banff Centre for the Arts Fall Studio, and has been awarded grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and from the Canada Council. While travelling through the Kingdom of Tonga in July 1997, he was hired as first mate aboard the eighty-foot sailing yacht Wendy Lynne. In the fifteen months that followed, he visited nine countries and sailed 8,000 miles. The stories in Night Watch are products of this journey. “The Cane Field” won the prestigious Journey Prize, as well as the Booming Ground/Chapters Scholarship and the Best Short Story Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Another story, “The First Motion of Love,” has been selected for inclusion in Best Canadian Stories. Kevin Armstrong lives in Vancouver.