Billie Livingston

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Billie Livingston (born 23 November 1965) is a Canadian novelist and poet.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario,^[1] Livingston grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver.

Her critically acclaimed first novel,Going Down Swinging (2000), was followed by The Chick at the Back of the Church (2001), a poetry book which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Her second novel Cease to Blush, was published in 2006 and subsequently chosen as one of the year's Best Books by The Globe and Mail, January Magazine, and The Tyee.

Her short fiction has been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including Toronto Life magazine, The Journey Prize Stories, and This where it won first prize in The Great Canadian Literary Hunt. She's has also won fiction prizes from Prism Magazine, sub-TERRAIN, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Other Voices and The Lawrence House Centre for the Arts.

Livingston's poetry has appeared in journals and magazines around the world, and has been published everywhere from textbooks such as Literature and the Writing Process to the buses and SkyTrains of British Columbia through TransLink's Poetry in Transit program.