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Stenson is the author of The Trade, which was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant McEwan Writer’s Award, The City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. He was president of the Writers Guild of Alberta in 1996 and has twice served on the council of TWUC. He has written scripts for over 140 produced films and videos, and wrote a regular humour column for Alberta Views Magazine. He was raised on a farm in the Alberta foothills north of Chief Mountain and lives in Cochrane, Alberta.