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| Name | Dee Hobsbawn-Smith |
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| Location | Saskatoon, SK |
| Biography | dee Hobsbawn-Smith is an award-winning gastronomic journalist, author of five best-selling food books, educator, poet, essayist, writer and chef. She is a popular speaker on issues regarding local food, food security and the simple truth about how to enjoy cooking. (cook for someone you love. now you know!)After 27 years in Calgary, she relocated to a 100-year-old farmhouse near Saskatoon with her partner, the writer and poet Dave Margoshes. When she is not cooking or writing, she enjoys painting, gardening and coming to terms with the intricacies of 'simple country living'. She and her partner have two dogs and a Coxey army of cats.She is a 5-time alumna of Sage Hill Writing Experience, and has attended writing colonies with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild at Emma Lake and St. Paters Abbey, and retreats at The Banff Centre with The Writers Guild of Alberta. In 2010, dee loved her 2-week residency at Stegner House in Eastend, SK. She has two sons. She is currently earning her MFA in writing at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. |
| Publications | Dee's first poetry collection, Wildness Rushing In, was published by Hagios Pres in 2014. Her first short fiction collection, What Can't Be Undone, will be published by Thistledown Press in 2015. Her most recent book, Foodshed: An Edible Albertan Alphabet, was published by TouchWood Editions in 2012. It is a close examination of the politics, issues, challenges and rewards of small-scale sustainable food production for local consumption. dee's poetry has appeared in publications including Gastronomica, Grain, Freefall, Room, The Antigonish Review, Vallum, CV2, Event, Other Voices, The Society, The Quint and Blue Skies. Her short fiction has been published in The Malahat Review, The Windsor Review, The Antigonish Review, Freefall and Numero Cinq. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Pith & Wry(Scrivener Press), Seek It (Red Claw Press), Entanglements Ecopoetry (Two Ravens Press), None and All of This is True (GritLIT 2012) and The Challenge of Three (GritLIT 2010). Author of Shop Talk: The Open-All-Hours Insiders Guide to Finding Great Ingredients in Calgary, the Bow Valley and Beyond (Last Impression Publishing, 2008) This book has a comprehensive section on local food growers, farmers markets and retailers. Nominee, Cuisine Canada national book awards, Food Culture, 2009 Author of The Curious Cook At Home: Recipes & Secrets From An Adventurous Chef (Whitecap, 2004) Nominee, Cuisine Canada national book awards, best cookbook, 2004Author of Skinny Feasts (Whitecap, 1997) Author of The Quick Gourmet (Whitecap, 2000) Co-author: Dishing: Calgary Women Cook (Whitecap, 2001) Co-author, Double Dishing: The Dishing Women Entertain (Whitecap, 2002) FInalist, Cuisine Canada national book awards, best cookbook, 2003 Book contributor: Shellfish: The Cookbook; Halibut, The Cookbook; Salmon, The Cookbook; Salad Dressing 101 (all Whitecap); The Best of City Palate (City Palate Publishing); On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Editions (Prentice Hall, Canadian Edition, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2007) |
| Awards | In 2014, dee came 2nd in the SWG's 14th annual John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award for her essay collection-in-progress, Bread and Water. Foodshed won 3rd prize in the 2014 Les Dames d'Escoffier MFK Fisher Award for Excellence in culinary writing, book division. It also won Best Culinary Book at the 2013 High Plains Book Awards and also won Best Food Literature Book (Canadian, English language) in the 2013 World Gourmand Book Awards. In 2013, dee's essay, Elemental made the CBC Canada Reads long list, and her essay Watershed received an Honourable Mention in TNQ's annual Edna Staebler essay contest. In 2012, dee won the annual Hamilton Poetry Festival's GritLit poetry prize with a suite of seven poems called Seven Ways to Inhabit Grief. In 2009, dee shortlisted for the Malahat Review's Far Horizons Short Fiction award and was a runner-up for the Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Fiction Prize. In 2010, she shortlisted for the Malahat Review's Far Horizons Poetry Award, a suite of her poems came third in Hamiltons annual GritLIT poetry contest, and one of her poems is included in Pith & Wry, a Canadian poetry anthology published by Your Scrivener Press.2006: 2nd place, Les Dames dEscoffier International MFK Fisher award for excellence in culinary writing in North America 2006: Western Region Finalist, The Sandy Sanderson Media Writing Award, Canadian Federation of Chefs and Cooks |
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