Garth Von Buchholz

Garth von Buchholz is a Canadian digital strategist, educator and author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Winnipeg, Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He received his undergraduate arts degree at the University of Winnipeg in 1994 and started his graduate studies in English Literature at the University of Manitoba in 1995.

He began his career in print publishing as a writer and editor in 1988, and then later launched a new career in web publishing and content strategy in the mid-1990s. He earned his Certified Usability Analyst credentials from Human Factors International [1] and has worked as a website communications manager for Investors Group (IGM Financial) and as the first corporate web manager for the City of Winnipeg. In 2010 he was listed as one of the Top 25 Content Strategists (#16)[2] at the LavaCon technology conference in San Diego, California. He teaches social media strategy at Royal Roads University [3] in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

As a creative writer, his works include a book of poetry called Mad Shadows that was published in 2010. His plays include Land of Milk and Honey, which was professionally workshopped in 1994 by the Manitoba Association of Playwrights at Prairie Theatre Exchange. His poetry and short stories have been published in many print and online journals. In addition to his literary writing, von Buchholz has written numerous arts and entertainment reviews as a professional journalist and critic for several newspapers and magazines, such as Maclean's magazine, Prairie Fire, The Globe and Mail and Dance Magazine.

He was the dance critic for the Winnipeg Free Press from 1990 to 2004, where he also covered theater, films, music, art and books. He is credited as a writer in several non-fiction books, such as The Encyclopedia of Manitoba (2007), Return of the Raven [4] (2009). He has also reviewed books for the New York Journal of Books [5] in New York City.

In 2009, he produced the International Edgar Allan Poe Society,[6] a popular online resource celebrating 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe.

Von Buchholz is photographer for the Ballerina Project Canada a former board member for Ballet Victoria [7] and a former board member for Canadian Culture Online (Culture.ca), and the University of Winnipeg's Global College and Arts and Cultural Industries of Manitoba Inc.