Jon Redfern

Jon Redfern was born and raised in southern Alberta. He has been a freelance journalist, a children’s playwright, and a story editor for the CBC. Since 1989 his short fiction has appeared in journals such as Grain, Event, and Descant. His short story, “Love Can Crown a Man,” was anthologized in the Wascana Review’s thirty-year retrospective. Jon received his PhD from the University of Toronto, and has taught literature there, as well as at York University, and at the Siena-Toronto Centre in Siena, Italy. Currently, he is an English professor at Centennial College. Jon Redfern lives in Toronto, and The Boy Must Die is his first novel.