John Stiles

John Stiles is a Toronto-based writer/filmmaker. He was born in Wolfville Nova Scotia in 1966, lived briefly in England as a child and was raised in nearby Port Williams, Nova Scotia. His father, David Stiles taught chemistry at Acadia University and his mother, Victoria was a homemaker. John has one brother, Mark and a sister, Susie. John attended Horton District High School in Greenwhich, Nova Scotia and graduated from The University of Kings College in Halifax in 1989 with a degree in History. John's first short story appeared in Storyteller Magazine in 1997. John has published fiction and poetry in such journals as the Literary Review of Canada and Pagitica and has served as staff writer for Spin productions in Toronto. In the spring of 2000 John received completion funding from Much Music for his rock and roll documentary, 'the smalls...er whatever.' Insomniac Press will publish John`s début novel The Insolent Boy.