Byron Christensen

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Byron Christensen

I quit school when I was sixteen, stuffed a few clothes into my packsack and started hitchhiking across the country, sleeping under bridges, raiding gardens and doing whatever was necessary to keep...показать большеI quit school when I was sixteen, stuffed a few clothes into my packsack and started hitchhiking across the country, sleeping under bridges, raiding gardens and doing whatever was necessary to keep going. A few years later a friend suggested I apply for the Journalism Administration course at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary. I was accepted, and spent the better part of two years trying to type with all of my fingers. I was Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper and won scholarships to study Creative Writing and Poetry at the (then) Banff School of Fine Arts. I met an eclectic group of people, both instructors and students, while there, and decided I would be happier away from a newspaper typewriter.показать меньше