Since 1978, after emigrating from Liverpool and returning to Ottawa where he grew up in the 1950s, Phil Jenkins has worked as a newspaper columnist, travel writer, author and a performing songwriter across Canada. He was a freelance columnist (over eight hundred columns) for the Ottawa Citizen from 1991 to 2017. He writes for magazines (National Geographic Traveller; Equinox; Wedding Bells: Canadian Geographic: Ottawa Magazine: Toronto Life) and about the Canadian landscape in books via the national non-fiction bestsellers Fields of Vision, An Acre of Time, River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence, and, Beneath My Feet: The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson. There are also two commissioned books, on the Ottawa Public Library and the Civic Heart Institute. Phil teaches and lectures in writing, the Canadian landscape and Ottawa history, including a 10-year stint as a lecturer at Carleton University. As a solo musician, songwriter and member of the Wakefield band Riverbend, he produced the albums Car Tunes and Making Waves, and a solo album Noteworthy. He lives in a straw bale house in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, on the Gatineau River.
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