Bio
Anik See is a Canadian writer living in Amsterdam. She is the author of postcard and other stories (Freehand Books, 2009), a collection of short fiction; Saudade (Coach House Books, 2008), a collection of essays on landscape and possibility; and A Fork in the Road (Macmillan, 2000), an account of journeys undertaken by bicycle and of her love affair with the roads and foods of Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as home. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in many journals and magazines, such as Brick, Prairie Fire, the Fiddlehead, Geist, grain, The National Post, Toronto Life and, as a contributing editor, in Outpost Magazine, and has been nominated for numerous awards. She has also contributed to several anthologies, and has attended residencies in New York, Banff, Iceland, Norway and Minnesota, where she stumbled into a warehouse full of old printing equipment one day and her life changed forever. There she discovered the art of letterpress printing, and for a number of years she printed politically and culturally important work of underpublished authors, incorporating an old-fashioned printing press. Her printing and design work has won an honourable mention and a prize at the Alcuin Society’s Book Design awards in 2005 and 2008 and has been seen across Canada, Japan and at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs in the context of the ‘most beautiful books in the world’. In Holland, she writes and is a producer for Radio Netherlands Worldwide. She lives with her partner, artist Walter van Broekhuizen and their son.
