BIO
Todd Babiak is an author, journalist and screenwriter. His latest novel, Toby: A Man, is published by Harper Collins. The Book of Stanley, his third novel, was published by McClelland and Stewart.
The Garneau Block, his second novel, was longlisted for the Giller Prize. It won the City of Edmonton Book Prize and is shortlisted for the upcoming Alberta Book Award for best novel. It is published by McClelland and Stewart.
His first novel, Choke Hold, won the Henry Kreisel Award for best first book and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize.
His screenplay, The Great One, co-written with Jason Margolis, won a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship. It is a magical realist comedy about the day Wayne Gretzky left Edmonton to play for the Los Angeles Kings.
On the political side of things, Todd was recently voted Lord Mayor of Old Strathcona. On the apolitical side of things, he is on the board of PEN Canada.
He was a columnist for the Edmonton
Journal for many years, and now runs a story-making company named StoryEngine. He is also a mediocre snowboarder and ultimate frisbee player.