Steven Galloway

Steven Galloway was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, then grew up in Kamloops. He realized at 20 years old that the books he loved to read were in fact written by living people and he decided to be an author. After attending the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia, Galloway became a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, as well as at Simon Fraser University. Galloway’s first novel, Finnie Walsh, explored the friendship of two Canadian boys through a love of Hockey and was nominated for a Canadian First Novel Award. In 2002, Galloway began researching the Bosnian War and eventually wrote The Cellist of Sarajevo. Published in 2008, The Cellist of Sarajevo quickly became an international bestseller. Galloway continued to write and teach, publishing The Confabulist in 2014, before he was dismissed from the University of British Columbia in 2015 for allegations of sexual assault. He now lives in Westminster with his wife and children.