About Therese Greenwood

Author Therese Greenwood received the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence and Western Writers of America Spur Award for her short crime fiction, which has appeared across Canada and the U.S. Her memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire, What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, was a Finalist for an Alberta Book Publishing Award.

Her most recent work is a collaboration with Indigenous Elder and Knowledge Keeper Robert Cree. The Many Names of Robert Cree is also available in audiobook format narrated by the celebrated actor Lorne Cardinal.

Therese has worked as a reporter and editor and spent a decade as a CBC Radio correspondent. Her feature stories and columns appear regularly in national news publications, and she is a frequent commentator on issues related to both wildfires and crime fiction. She has a Master’s degree in journalism.

You can also visit Therese online on Facebook.

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Selected Bibliography

Memoir

  • Therese is honoured to have assisted author and Elder Rober Cree with his memoir. The Many Names of Robert Cree, published by ECW Press, is Elder Robert’s first-person account of survival in a brutally racist residential school system designed to erase traditional Indigenous culture, language, and knowledge. It is also the story of an epic life of struggle and healing, as he becomes Chief of his First Nation and takes the wisdom of his ancestors and a message of reconciliation to the halls of government and to industry boardrooms. The book is a vital account of the author’s life and his plan for a peaceful, sincere, and just path to reconciliation in an angry and chaotic world. Celebrated Canadian actor Lorne Cardinal narrates the audiobook version, which is available on platforms across North America.
  • What You Take With You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home, University of Alberta Press. An eye witness account of the Fort McMurray wildfire and an in-depth examination of family, loss, and resilience. (Available on Amazon.ca in paperback and Kindle editions and available at Indigo in paperback and Kobo editions.available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions and available at Indigo in paperback and Kobo editions.)

Collections

  • Kill As You Go. Fourteen of Therese’s best stories, originally found in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, the Sun Media Summer Mystery Festival, and numerous anthologies. (Available on Amazon.ca in paperback and Kindle editions.)

Anthologies

  • Mystery Ink (co-editor and contributor), The Ginger Press, 2007.
  • Dead In the Water (co-editor and contributor), Rendezvous Crime, 2006.

Short Stories

  • “Hatcheck Bingo,” The Thirteenth Letter, Mesdames of Mayhem, Winner 2025 Award of Excellence, Crime Writers of Canada.
  • “Buck’s Last Ride,” Kill As You Go, Coffin Hop Press, Winner 2019 Spur Award, Western Writers of America.
  • “The Power Man,” Baby It’s Cold Outside, Coffin Hop Press, Finalist for 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, Crime Writers of Canada.
  • “Fair Lady” originally appeared in Menopause is Murder, Ladies Killing Circle, 2000, and was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for best short story.
  • “A Christmas Bauble” originally appeared in The Kingston Whig-Standard, December 2003, and was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada 2003 Arthur Ellis Award for best short story. Reprinted in Bloody Words: The Anthology (Baskerville Books).
  • “A Jury of Her Peers” won the Bloody Word’s Festival 2000 Bony Pete Award and appeared in Bloody Words The Anthology, Baskerville Books, 2003. The story has been reprinted several times, including a Russian translation appearing in the November 2007 all-Canadian edition of Inostrannaya Literatura (Foreign Literature), published by Inostranka of Moscow.
  • “Bottom of the Barrel,” winner of Crime Writers of Canada Fiction Contest held for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Canada Writes celebration of National Crime Writing Month, May 2012.
  • “A Way With Horses,” originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct. 2004. Reprinted in The Crooked Road, Volume 1: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks, EQ’s first Kindle anthology.
  • “Wrecked,” originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March-April 2012, reprinted in The Crooked Road, Volume 3: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks, EQ’s third Kindle anthology.
  • “Kill As You Go” originally appeared as “A Little Bit Easy” in When Boomers Go Bad, Rendezvous Press, Summer 2005. Also reprinted in AB Negative, An Anthology of Alberta Crime, Coffin Hop Press, 2015.
  • “Sister Companion” originally appeared in Over The Edge, Crime Writers of Canada, 2000.
  • “Dr. Spankie’s Car” originally appeared in the Sun Media Summer Mystery Festival, Sun Media Group, 2003.
  • “Crown Witness” originally appeared in the Sun Media Summer Mystery Festival, Sun Media, 2006.