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  Graham Clews

I was born in York , England , in 1942, and subsequently emigrated to Edmonton in 1956 with my parents.  I went to Allendale Jr. High, Scona Comp, and Bonnie Doon (the year it opened: 1958).  It was there that I met and dated Marie Harrison, and we married in 1963.  We have three children, and three grandchildren.

I graduated as a chartered accountant in 1966, after articling with the firm of Christenson, Morrison & Co., one of the root firms of KPMG.  I then spent five years pursuing my profession in industry (petrochemicals, aircraft maintenance/manufacturing) until 1971, then moved to Westlock , Alberta , driven by a strong desire to live in the country.  I am now the senior partner in a small firm of chartered accountants (fifteen people), and now work part time for most of the year.  Retirement is getting very, very close, but I’m still going through the weaning process.

Over the years I have been involved in community work, including serving on the boards of the Westlock Cultural Arts Society, the Westlock Library Board, the Westlock Scholarship Society, and the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Club.  I have also been president of the Alberta Army Cadet League, the Westlock Rotary Club, and the Westlock-Sturgeon P.C. Association. 

Along the way, I spent 17 years in the Canadian Army Reserve force, retiring ten years ago as a captain.  Other ‘life’ experience includes two years working in an auto-body shop before becoming a CA, running a two hundred acre mixed farming operation, owner/operator of a log mill for pre fab housing, and chairman of a public (Vancouver Stock Exchange)  gold company.  As well as still practicing as a CA, I own and operate a hobby farm with a 60-cow herd operation.

As to my literary career, it is quite limited.  I have won several contests over the years (a poetry contest, there was a short story aired on CBC radio, an Edmonton Journal Humour award, and a tie for first place in the now defunct ‘Alberta Search for  a Novelist Contest’, which happened, I believe, around 1981.)  And of course, there is now Jessica Jones and the Gates of Penseron, which won the 2007 BookAdz Award for Best Book, and Eboracvm, The Village.  A follow on to the latter, Eboracvm, The Fortress, will be ready next summer.

I currently intend to devote my retirement to writing, though this will of course depend (he said with tongue in cheek) on how long I can afford to do so.

clews@west-teq.net

Graham Clews is the author of these published works:  

Jessica Jones and the Gates of Penseron

Eboracvm, The Village

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