CITY/TOWN: Salt Spring Island, B.C.

DATE OF BIRTH: July 23, 1944

PLACE OF BIRTH: Rock Springs, Wyoming

ARRIVAL IN CANADA: May 1971

ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: Slovenian

EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: Instructor, ESL, Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C.

BOOKS:

A Measure of Undoing (Maipenrai Press, 2003). Republished as The Desserts of War - a novel of 21st Century Vietnam (England: Tagman Press 2011), paperback 978-1-903571-72-9.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS:

Kos has taught English Literature and ESL in Canada, the United States, Nigeria, China, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. He also worked in First Nations education as a teacher, counsellor and administrator.

PHOTO: David Kos (green sweater) with director Dang Vu Dung and disabled adults at Friendship Village, a training centre for victims of the American War in Vietnam, specially those hurt by Agent Orange. The Friendship Village was founded in 1988 by an American war veteran and Vietnamese veterans. More info: www.vietnamfriendship.org

[BCBW 2012]