Barry Grills
Author
Barry Grills was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1948. He has been publishing short fiction in Canada since 1973. Short stories appeared in various literary magazines such as Quarry, Grain, and the University of Windsor Review, as well as anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories. He is also the author of three cultural biographies from Quarry Pr....
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Barry Grills was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1948. He has been publishing short fiction in Canada since 1973. Short stories appeared in various literary magazines such as Quarry, Grain, and the University of Windsor Review, as well as anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories. He is also the author of three cultural biographies from Quarry Press on the lives of Anne Murray, Alanis Morissette and Celine Dion. An updated biography of Celine Dion with Jim Brown was the source of a CBC Television movie which aired in 2008. His memoir, The Lone Wolf Chronicles, about his adventures, friendship, and spiritual transformation with a wolf-German shepherd cross companion, was published by Freehand Books in autumn 2012 to positive critical reviews.
A cultural and political activist, he is a past chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada and the Book and Periodical Council. He also served as an executive member of the Coalition for Cultural Diversity, helping to negotiate a new international instrument for cultural diversity at UNESCO.
In a regional context, he is a founding director of the Arts Council of Muskoka and a former chair of the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership initiative, Arts in the Wild. He was a director of the North Bay Area Arts Council and, until recently, served as vice-chair of North Bay’s Coordinating Body on Arts, Culture and Heritage.
He is married to writer and community college instructor, Jennifer Rouse Barbeau. They live in North Bay, Ontario.