Geoff Dembicki, 2017 Book Award Winner

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Mar 3

Geoff Dembicki is a freelance journalist and author based in Vancouver, BC. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University in 2008 and started his writing career at The Tyee (thetyee.ca) covering the 2010 Winter Olympics. Dembicki then became the news website's full-time climate and sustainability reporter. He reported from locations like Fort McMurray, Washington DC, San Francisco, South Dakota, New York, Beijing and Honolulu.

In 2015, he left The Tyee to begin writing his Greber Award winning first book published by Bloomsbury, Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change.

Dembicki's work has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, Foreign Policy, VICE, the Guardian, Penthouse, the Walrus and the Toronto Star. He has won fellowships from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the New York-based Solutions Journalism Network.

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