Kevin Patterson
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This article is about the writer. For information about the Fiction Factory singer see Kevin Patterson (Artist).
Kevin Patterson (born December 27, 1964 in Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, whose short story collection Country of Cold won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2004.
Patterson is also a doctor, who put himself through medical school by enlisting in the Canadian army. When his service was up, he worked as a doctor in the Arctic and on the coast of British Columbia while pursuing his MFA in creative writing. In 1999, Patterson published The Water in Between, a travel memoir of his sailing expedition in the Pacific Ocean.
His first novel, Consumption, was published in September of 2006 in Canada, and is scheduled for publication in spring 2007 in the United States.
