Senior Lecturer

T: 778-996-0434
E: rsteedma@sfu.ca, scottrsteed@gmail.com
Room: HC 7352

An editor and publishing consultant, Scott Steedman has worked in publishing for more than thirty years and has conceived, imagined, structured and edited hundreds of books for some of the biggest publishers in the UK, France and Canada, and for organizations as varied as the British Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Haida Nation and the Toronto Maple Leafs. His roles include Editor at Dorling Kindersley, London (1989–95), Senior Editor at Larousse, Paris (1995–2001), Editorial Director, Non-Fiction at Raincoast Books, Vancouver (2001–2004) and Associate Publisher at Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver (2004–2008).

Scott has written books for children and adults, as well as journalism, communications copy and most kinds of marketing material. The books he has edited have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and won many awards, and a number have been bestsellers; one title, Visions of British Columbia, won the City of Vancouver Book Award and was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize, and another title he acquired, Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, won CBC’s Canada Reads and was a number one Canadian bestseller. Art For War and Peace, which he co-wrote, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for best art or photography book of 2015. Reconciling, co-written with Musqueam–Chinese Elder Larry Grant, was nominated for six awards, including two BC & Yukon Book Awards.

EDUCATION

• B.Sc University of British Columbia (Biology)

CURRENTLY TEACHING

• PUB 450: The Business of Book Publishing
• PUB 601: Editorial Theory & Practice

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong, with Larry Grant
• Art for War and Peace, with Ian Sigvaldason