Bill Engleson is an author and retired child protection social worker. He was born in Powell
River, raised in Nanaimo, and spent his first year of life trapped aboard his parents’ leaky fish
boat.He resided in New Westminster for most of his adult years, retiring to Denman Island in 2004.
He writes fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and letters to the editor. He has been writing most of
his life and his first couple of poetic efforts were printed in his mid-teens in the, now, sadly
defunct Nanaimo Daily Free Press.
He self-published his first novel, Like a Child to Home in 2013. Silver Bow Publishing released
his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays titled Confessions of an Inadvertently
Gentrifying Soul, in October 2016.
He is working on several projects including a prequel to his first novel, Drawn Towards the Sun,
and a long simmering mystery, A Short Rope on a Nasty Night.
His story, Fidelity, recently took second place in Geist’s short long-distance writing contest.
He has also had the privilege over the past few years of writing reviews for the British Columbia
Review including books by Hugh Greer, Daniel Wood, Luke Whittell, two by Jack Knox
(Opportunity Knox and Hard Knox) and Mike McCardell as well as contributing an essay on the
Denman Island Dora Drinkwater Library.
While many of his longer projects are taking their own good time, he has just published his latest
novel, The Life of Gronsky, a whirlwind of a creation that took almost no time at all to write..
Well, perhaps a tad longer than that.
His refurbished website /blog is www.engleson.ca