Camilla Gibb

Adjunct Professor; Graduate Faculty
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 334, 73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

Biography

Camilla Gibb is a Canadian writer who holds a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford University. She is a past winner of the Trillium Award, the CBC Canadian Literary Award and the City of Toronto Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize. She has served as Writer in Residence at the universities of Toronto, Alberta and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC, and as the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies at U of T.

She has been an Adjunct Faculty Member with the Department of English’s MA Program in Creative Writing Program since 2006 and joined Victoria College in 2014/15 as the June Callwood Professor in Social Justice.

Selected Publications

This is Happy (a memoir) - 2015

The Penguin Book of Memoir (editor) - 2011

The Beauty of Humanity Movement (a novel) - 2010

Sweetness in the Belly (a novel) - 2006

The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life (a novel) - 2002

Mouthing the Words (a novel) - 1999

Education

PhD, Oxford University