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Troy Wilson was born and raised in Port Alberni. As a kid, his three favourite activities were reading, writing and cartooning. "As long as I had a steady supply of food, books, comics, paper and pens I was as happy as a colt in clover." He has worked as a burger flipper, a private in the army, a gas jockey, a page at the Vancouver Island Regional Library headquarters, a daycare worker, a summer camp counselor, an internet skills trainer, a radio dj/producer, a respite care worker and a market survey taker. He studied at Malaspina University College, but 'ran aground' when he transferred to UVIC. He has taken retail sales, food safety, and marine safety courses. He also completed the BEST Program (life/career direction) and the Applied Communication Program (video, publishing, and audio), both through Camosun College. By the end of 2001, he'd won third place in the Victoria School of Writing's Postcard Fiction Competition, published his first column in Victoria's Monday Magazine, and signed a contract with Orca Books for his first picture book for children, titled Perfect Man.
Perfect Man is about a boy named Michael and a superhero who appears as a classroom teacher. "It is, in many ways, my own story," says Troy. "I was Michael. My Perfect man was comic books. I read the comics. I neglected my power. I learned the lesson. These days I still love comics, but I don't neglect my own super power, writing." Troy's Last Word pieces for Monday Magazine copntinued and his work has also aired on CBC Radio and appeared in the Times-Colonist.
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths, Frosty is a Stupid Name (Orca 2005) is set in a trailer park.
DATE OF BIRTH: June 4, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH: Port Alberni, BC
BOOKS:
Perfect Man (Orca Books, 2004)
Frosty is a Stupid Name (Orca Books, 2005)
The Duck Says (Scholastic Canada, 2015)
Liam Takes a Stand (Owlkids, 2017)
The Sinking of Captain Otter (Owlkids, 2018)
Dog vs Ultra Dog (Owlkids, 2019)
Little Red Reading Hood and the Misread Wolf (Running Press Kids, 2019)
Goldibooks and the Wee Bear (Running Press Kids, 2021)
Hat Cat (Candlewick, 2022)
[BCBW 2021] "Kidlit"
Perfect Man is about a boy named Michael and a superhero who appears as a classroom teacher. "It is, in many ways, my own story," says Troy. "I was Michael. My Perfect man was comic books. I read the comics. I neglected my power. I learned the lesson. These days I still love comics, but I don't neglect my own super power, writing." Troy's Last Word pieces for Monday Magazine copntinued and his work has also aired on CBC Radio and appeared in the Times-Colonist.
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths, Frosty is a Stupid Name (Orca 2005) is set in a trailer park.
DATE OF BIRTH: June 4, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH: Port Alberni, BC
BOOKS:
Perfect Man (Orca Books, 2004)
Frosty is a Stupid Name (Orca Books, 2005)
The Duck Says (Scholastic Canada, 2015)
Liam Takes a Stand (Owlkids, 2017)
The Sinking of Captain Otter (Owlkids, 2018)
Dog vs Ultra Dog (Owlkids, 2019)
Little Red Reading Hood and the Misread Wolf (Running Press Kids, 2019)
Goldibooks and the Wee Bear (Running Press Kids, 2021)
Hat Cat (Candlewick, 2022)
[BCBW 2021] "Kidlit"
