Editor Biography - Trilby Kent

Name: Trilby Kent

Undergraduate:
BA, History
Oxford University

Graduate:
MSc, Social Anthropology
London School of Economics

Teaching and Editing Experience: 4 Years

Trilby was born in Toronto but grew up in Boston, Miami, and London, England. She got her first 'scoop' as deputy editor of Oxford University's student newspaper, The Cherwell: an interview with Conrad Black. After graduating, she spent a year working in the Rare Books department of a major London auction house. Love led her to Brussels, where she became a regular contributor to the Continent’s largest English-language newsmagazine. During this time, she was offered her first publishing contract for a children's novel.

When her partner decided to leave the legal profession for a career as an academic musician, they returned to England and now live in deepest Dorset. Trilby has taught drama to secondary school students and now tutors with one of the U.K.'s leading distance learning schools. She is revising her first 'adult' novel, which was named 2008 Book of the Year by an Arts Council-sponsored award for a work in progress.

Her other interests include film, theatre, current events, classical piano, ethnographic curiosities, the 1930s, foreign picture books, cooking, and travel.

Publications:

• Journalism:
  • The Ottawa Citizen ('Child Traffickers Find a Haven in Brussels', 10/21/2007)
  • The National Post ('Reaping the Whirlwind: South Africa's Free State Farmers' 03/28/2007)

• Essays:
  • The Globe and Mail, Macleans

• Film, book and exhibition reviews, and interviews:
  • The London Magazine ('Seeds of the Diaspora: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh' 10/2008)
  • The California Literary Review ('Brontë in Brussels')
  • Flanders Today ('Write On: Anne Provoost')
  • The Bulletin
  • The Good Book Guide

• Short fiction:
  • Mslexia ('Stealing Their Churches Behind Them', Spring 2008)
  • The African American Review ('Fallout', Winter 2008)

• Novels:
  • Tundra Books (McClelland & Stewart) will be releasing Trilby's first children's novel in 2009

Favorite Authors:

• Doris Lessing
• Nadine Gordimer
• W.H. Auden
• Tom Stoppard
• Christopher Isherwood
• Donald Woods
• André Brink
• Ian McEwan
• Ruth Benedict
• Hugo Claus
• Rudyard Kipling
• Edward Gorey
• Patricia Highsmith
• Flannery O'Connor
• Rose Tremain