Jonathan Crowe

Writer in Shawville QC

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Jonathan Crowe blogs about maps at The Map Room and writes, writes about and reviews science fiction and fantasy.

His essays and reviews have appeared in AE, Calafia, The New York Review of Science Fiction, the Ottawa Citizen, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. His sf fanzine, Ecdysis, was a two-time finalist for the Aurora Award. His other web projects include DFL, a blog about last-place finishes at the Olympics that made him world famous for 10 days in 2004, and Gartersnake.info, a website for garter snake keepers.

Jonathan has been interviewed or profiled by Agence France-Presse, the BBC World Service, the Boston Globe, CBC Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, Folha de São Paolo, the Hamilton Spectator, the National Post, the Ottawa Sun, Reuters, RTÉ, Sports Illustrated, the Toronto Star and the West Quebec Post, among others. He has also appeared as a panelist and presenter at science fiction conventions like Can-Con, Readercon and Scintillation.

A former historian, civil servant, snake breeder, reporter, and fanzine editor, Jonathan lives in Shawville, Quebec, on a property a friend once described as “living in an Enid Blyton novel,” with his wife and their menagerie of cats, snakes and typewriters.