Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born January 22, 1962) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.

[1] Harvey's debut short story collection, Directions for an Opened Body, was published in 1990.

[4] His 2003 novel The Town That Forgot How to Breathe was his first book to be republished in the United States,[5] and was the winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award in 2004.

[10] As a filmmaker Harvey is most noted for his 2018 documentary film Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt,[11] a profile of artist Christopher Pratt which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019,[12] and won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2019 International Festival of Films on Art.

[14] Management of the ReLits was taken over in 2021 by his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.