About the Author

Tyrone Camp

Tyrone Camp is a Vancouver Island–based writer whose fiction explores British Columbia history, crime, community, and social marginalization. His stories are drawn to people living at the edge of respectability: the hungry, the damaged, the loyal, the criminal, the funny, and the forgotten.

His novel 31 West Pender is a character-driven coming-of-age crime story set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 1983. Drawing on firsthand experience of living on the streets of downtown Vancouver during the 1980s, the novel follows a young boy pulled into an unconventional community where survival, belonging, and morality become tangled together.

Tyrone has completed a novel manuscript and several short stories. His work is rooted in memory, place, working-class life, and the complicated families people build when ordinary systems fail them.