Wayne Tefs

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Wayne Tefs (born 1947) is a Canadian novelist, critic, and anthologist who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with his wife, Kristen Wittman and son, Andrew. He was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, the middle of three children, to Armin and Stella Tefs, and grew up in Northwestern Ontario. He often writes about the Shield country of Ontario and the North. He was educated at the University of Manitoba, the University of Toronto, and McGill University. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has taught at a number of Canadian universities and colleges. From 1978 to 1992 he was Head of English at St John’s Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg. He is a co-founder of Turnstone Press and has been its fiction editor since 1995. He has published numerous newspaper and magazine articles and dozens of critical reviews about authors such as Margaret Atwood, Sandra Birdsell, Wayne Johnston, Patrick Friesen. In 1983 his first novel, Figures on a Wharf, was nominated for the Books In Canada First Novel Award. He has published eight other novels, as well as a memoir, Rollercoaster: a cancer journey, about living with cancer. He has also edited three anthologies of short fiction. In 2000 his novel Moon Lake received the inaugural Margaret Laurence Award for fiction. His short story "Red Rock and After" received the Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize for 1990.