18 Facts About Steven Galloway

Steven Galloway was born on July 13,1975 and is a Canadian novelist and a former professor at the University of British Columbia.

Steven Galloway is the author of the award-winning novel The Cellist of Sarajevo.

Steven Galloway attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia.

Steven Galloway taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia for many years.

Steven Galloway published his first novel, Finnie Walsh, in 2000, a second novel, Ascension, in 2003, and followed this with a third book, The Cellist of Sarajevo, in 2008.

In 2013 Steven Galloway became a tenured associate professor at UBC, and served as acting chair of the creative writing program.

In November 2015, UBC announced that Steven Galloway was suspended from his position with pay because allegations, which were not specified in the announcement, had been made against him.

In June 2016, Steven Galloway was fired from the university; in announcing Steven Galloway's termination, university spokesperson Philip Steenkamp cited "a record of misconduct that resulted in an irreparable breach of trust".

The Canadian Press spoke with five of the people who had filed complaints against Steven Galloway, and found that complaints included alleged "sexual harassment, bullying, threats and an incident in which Steven Galloway is accused of slapping a student".

In December 2016, Steven Galloway revealed that he had had an affair with a student, for which he apologized.

On July 13,2018, Steven Galloway published an essay in the Toronto National Post asserting that he was "not a monster," despite what he felt had been a coordinated campaign to paint him as such, and revealed that the woman who had accused him of assault was the one with whom he had had the affair.

Steven Galloway described how the allegations against him had destroyed his life and career, specifically mentioning the fact that his publisher withdrew a three book contract in 2018, and how he had been reduced to doing manual labor jobs, including cleaning swimming pools, for a living.

However, in October 2024, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case and rejected all appeals, with Steven Galloway being awarded costs.

Steven Galloway was recognized for successfully portraying a child's perspective without "giving a child an adult's perspective".

Steven Galloway had been advised to contact Smajlovic, who had purposefully embraced a quiet, private life in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, but did not do so.

Steven Galloway, claimed that Smailovic's playing of the cello as a protest was a public act, and that fiction writers were under no obligation to pay those who inspired them, and that it was unreasonable to expect them to do so.

Steven Galloway insisted that the cellist in his story, while inspired by the photos and story of Smailovic, was imaginary.

Steven Galloway sent the cellist a signed copy of the book.