Tom Stewart

Tom Stewart (b. 1982) is a Canadian novelist and memoirist living on the coast of Tofino, Vancouver Island. His debut novel Immortal North won the 2023 WIBA Fiction Award, and he was a finalist for the 2022 Somerset Literary Fiction Award. Raised near Winnipeg, Stewart studied literature and philosophy at the University of Manitoba before working in Canada’s North as a fishing and hunting guide, oil‑rig roughneck, bush‑plane pilot. He played poker professionally before turning full-time to writing.