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Revision as of 22:26, 9 October 2005 by 24.80.164.23 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Kevin Potvin is an award-winning Canadian writer and publisher.
Potvin was born in Port Arthur, Ontario in 1962. He received an Honours B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1986.
He founded Magpie Magazine Gallery on Vancouver's famous Commercial Drive in 1994 and launched The Republic of East Vancouver newspaper in 2000. He has written a political opinion column in the Vancouver Courier since 1995 and his work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and The Vancouver Sun. In the late 1990s, he twice won the Geist Magazine Distance Writing Prize.
Potvin is currently an independent candidate for City Council in Vancouver civic elections scheduled for November 2005.