John Vigna, 2007 Magazine Award Winner

John Vigna's first book of fiction, Bull Head, was published to critical acclaim in Canada and the US in 2012, and in France by Éditions Albin Michel in 2017. It was selected by Quill & Quire as an editor's pick of the year and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His novel, No Man's Land, was published in Fall 2021. An Assistant Professor of Teaching at UBC's School of Creative Writing, he lives in Steveston, BC, with his wife, the author Nancy Lee.

John's winning submission was his article entitled The Ballad of Big and Small about his relationship to his drug and alcoholic addicted brother and the family in which they grew up. It was published in the fall of 2007 by Grain Magazine. 

He has won a number of Professional Awards including scholarships from the BC Arts Council, Banff Cultural Journalism and Creative Non-Fiction Scholarship, Canada Council as well as the First Prize for Creative Non-Fiction Awarded by the Kootenay Writer's Guild. John completed his Master of Fine Arts at UBC in the Creative Writing Program.

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