[Ailesbury]

I have read that Steven Erikson went to the Iowa Writer's Workshop (MFA degree?), but where did he get his undergraduate degree from? Was it somewhere in Canada? Toronto or Ontario?

Also, I have read that Erikson did work as an anthropologist and archaeologist, but what specifically did he do in this early career before he became a professional writer?

This post has been edited by ailes: 30 November 2020 - 08:46 PM

[nacht]

I kind of remember stuff like this from various interviews.
There are various threads in the forums with links to interviews and such

for example, like this.


https://forum.malaza...rtage-lake-dig/

He also has a blog(s?)

https://lifeasahuman.../stevenerikson/

https://steven-erikson.org/blog/


and his own website
https://steven-erikson.org

There is a Reddit AMA

https://www.reddit.c...erikson_please/


but mainly he is quite forthcoming in Interviews
search for erikson interviews in the forum and you will find several posts.

[ArchieVist]

I believe he got his undergrad at the University of Winnipeg. During that time he became acquainted with Esslemont on various digs. Both authors eventually went for additional undergrad study in Creative Writing at the University of Victoria, where they were flatmates.

The wiki has a complete(?) list of Erikson's essays, many of which recently have been going into detail on his archaeological adventures.


Edit: Actually it was the University of Manitoba, not Winnipeg.

This post has been edited by ArchieVist: 05 December 2020 - 04:47 PM

[ArchieVist]

To add a little more to this, he received a B.A. in Anthropology, with minors in History and Classics. I also came upon this short essay on his website where he says he dropped out of a Master's in Archaeology program to complete an undergrad degree in Creative Writing at Victoria.

Quote

...[I]n 1983 I was standing in a tiny, blistering hot telephone booth in Belize City, having a conversation with my mother in Winnipeg. I'd received a letter from the University of Victoria accepting me into the undergraduate Creative Writing program. Though I was in Belize to work on a dig, that acceptance decided my career track. I dropped out of a Master's program (in archaeology) to set out becoming a writer (though I would continue working as a field archaeologist for years).

And in the early minutes of this podcast he says he worked in archaeology for around 18 years before committing to writing due to lack of job opportunities. His areas of expertise were lithics (stone tools) and rock art. He's written of digs in Canada and Belize in his professional days, but he's participated on the occasional dig even up until recently. Some of the sites he's worked on have been in the UK, Italy, and Mongolia (but I don't know where in his career timeline these fall).

This post has been edited by ArchieVist: 05 December 2020 - 04:11 PM

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