Katherine Palmer Gordon

Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of eight books of non-fiction, including several BC bestsellers: We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us, The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley, The Garden That You Are, and Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia, for which she was awarded the 2007 BC Roderick Haig-Brown prize. Her book, This Place is Who We Are won the Jeanne Clarke Local History Award, and is a finalist for 2024 BC Book Prizes. Gordon is also an award-winning freelance journalist and lives on Gabriola Island, BC.