AUTHORS

CONNIE KUHNS

ABOUT

Connie Kuhns has a forty-year history as an essayist, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. Her essay “Strange Women,” (Geist 95), about women in Vancouver’s early punk scene, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award;  “Last Day in Cheyenne” (Geist 84) was named a “Notable Essay of 2012” in The Best American Essay series and a finalist for a Western Magazine Award;  and other essays have been finalists in publications ranging from the LA Review to Prism International to the New York Times Modern Love column, and the Southampton Review Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.  

CONNIE KUHNS
Essays
Fifty Years in Review

A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery.

CONNIE KUHNS
Essays
Last Day in Cheyenne

Remembering her father's last days in a hospital in Wyoming, Connie Kuhns struggles with questions of mortality, memory and how to fulfill her father's dying wish.

CONNIE KUHNS
Essays
There is a Wind that Never Dies

"If you are still alive, you must have had the experience of surrendering."

CONNIE KUHNS
Essays
Strange Women

Connie Kuhns' major profile of punk, politics and feminism in 1970s Canada: the Moral Lepers, the Dishrags and other revolutionary bands.

CONNIE KUHNS
Dispatches
Signs of Life

Does a house that has been home to four generations of one family still hold their electricity?

CONNIE KUHNS
Reviews
The Ove Within

For Ove, the central character in the film A Man Called Ove there is nothing ahead but frustration, disappointment and sadness. “It’s just chaos when you’re not here,” he says to his newly departed wife as he lays flowers on her grave.

CONNIE KUHNS
Essays
Life After Virginity

A flower child looks back, to the time between Motown and acid rock.

CONNIE KUHNS
Dispatches
Marriage on the Download

If marriage was a television show, it might look something like this.

CONNIE KUHNS
Reviews
Rise Up

Review of "Rise Up: Songs of the Women's Movement" Co-Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith, and Donna Korones.

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CONNIE KUHNS
Photography
I AM HERE

The self-focussed approach of social media is channelled into the vintage correspondence of "Wish You Were Here."

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