GARY BOTTING

5046 Seaview,
RR1 S152 C86 Deep Bay/Bowser,
B.C., Canada
V0R 1G0

telephone: (250) 757-9916
fax: (250) 757-9926
email: info@garybotting.com

Currently a legal scholar at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and visiting scholar at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle (SEE CV), Gary Botting is an established writer (SEE
PAST PUBLICATIONS) who continues to write fiction and non-fiction works for publication (SEE Works in Progress), drawing from a wealth of past experience as a journalist, a playwright (SEE PRODUCED PLAYS), and a lawyer (SEE LEGAL SCHOLAR/LAWYER).

By the time Gary Botting began his first career as a journalist with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong at age 18, he had already traveled around the world as first prize winner in biology at both the 1960 and 1961 Ontario and U.S. National Science Fairs. His experiments as a teenager with the genetics and hybridization of giant silk moths were said by judges to be worthy of a M.Sc. degree. The American Institute of Biological Science sponsored him on a U.S. tour with his exhibit, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences followed through with an all-expenses-paid trip to India, the Middle East and Europe. He traveled back to Europe, where he spent the summer of 1961 smuggling anti-Franco literature into Spain. Then at 18 he bought a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, where he became a journalist.

Upon his return to Canada in 1964 Gary Botting worked for the Peterborough Examiner under Robertson Davies, and read English and Philosophy at Trent University, from where he graduated in 1968. As an undergraduate, he won several literary awards and a scholarship to pursue graduate studies. Over the next three decades, he obtained additional academic credentials - including the M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature and the M.F.A. in Playwriting, followed by the LL.B. and LL.M. degrees in constitutional and international criminal law. In Alberta, Gary Botting established a reputation as a prizewinning playwright, then became an English and creative writing instructor at Red Deer College for 14 years, winning additional awards for his writing and directing. He was founding president of the Alberta Publishers Association, president of TrenTan Developments Ltd., and
for several years was proprietor of Arabesque Arabians, a ranch on which he raised Arabian horses, black sheep and komondor dogs.

After completing law school in 1990, he became senior partner in his own law firm, Gary Botting & Associates, in Victoria, B.C., taking dozens of serious criminal cases to trial and appeal, from extradition to murder. Now living in Deep Bay, Vancouver Island, Gary Botting continues to write plays, novels, poetry and academic works for publication.