Phil Jenkins

An author and performing songwriter, Phil Jenkins has written for a number of magazines, including National Geographic Traveller , Equinox , and Heritage Canada , and was a feature writer for Ottawa Magazine for five years. His first book, Fields of Vision: A Journey to Canada's Family Farms , a national bestseller, was published in 1991. His second, An Acre of Time , published in 1996, won the Canadian Author's Association Lela Common Award for History, jointly won the Ottawa Citizen Non...See more

An author and performing songwriter, Phil Jenkins has written for a number of magazines, including National Geographic Traveller , Equinox , and Heritage Canada , and was a feature writer for Ottawa Magazine for five years. His first book, Fields of Vision: A Journey to Canada's Family Farms , a national bestseller, was published in 1991. His second, An Acre of Time , published in 1996, won the Canadian Author's Association Lela Common Award for History, jointly won the Ottawa Citizen Non-Fiction Award, and was made into a play nominated for a Governor General's award. His third book, River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence River was published in 2001. From 1991 to 1996, Jenkins was the book columnist for the Ottawa Citizen , and he currently writes on interesting city rooms for the newspaper. He has also recently released a CD, CarTunes , with the band Riverbend. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec. See less