Bruce Gillespie is an award-winning freelance writer and editor. He got his start in journalism at the age of 15 at the Mid-North Monitor, a weekly community newspaper based in Espanola, Ontario. He went on to pursue a degree in journalism at Carleton University, in Ottawa, where he became the arts editor of the independent campus newspaper, The Charlatan. He transferred to Ryerson University mid-way through his degree and graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism in 2000. He is currently at work on a Master of Arts in Integrated Studies at Athabasca University.

After working as a fact-checker and copyeditor at Canadian Business and then the staff writer at MoneySense, Bruce decided to become a freelancer in 2002, providing him the chance to work on a wider range of stories. His writing has since appeared in a variety of newspapers (National Post, the Nunatsiaq News), books (Time Out Toronto, POP CAN: Popular Culture in Canada) and magazines (Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Financial Post Business, Quill & Quire, Canadian Geographic and ON Nature).

Bruce is honoured by the recognition his writing has received. His work on the “Family Finance: How to Retire Rich” package for National Post Business earned two honourable mentions at the National Magazine Awards in 2004, while his work on “A Survival Guide to Family Finance” package, also in National Post Business, earned him a gold award and an honourable mention at the NMAs in 2003. Bruce’s story “Presumed Guilty,” in MoneySense,  won an honourable mention at the NMAs in 2001 as well as the Best Consumer Feature in the Rogers Media Best Of Awards the same year.

On the editing side of things, Bruce is the editor of Bankrate.ca, a popular personal finance web site for Canadians. He was also the listings editor for the first edition of the Time Out Toronto travel guide, published in 2003 by Penguin Books Canada, and edited the This & That section of This Magazine between 2004 and 2005. Bruce has also been a contributing editor for the Ryerson Review of Journalism since 2003.

Bruce recently co-edited Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids, with Lynne Van Luven. The book is a collection of essays that is a sequel of sorts to Nobody's Mother (TouchWood Editions, 2006). It will be published in September 2008 by TouchWood Editions.

When he isn’t working on writing or editing projects, Bruce teaches magazine writing part-time at the Ryerson University School of Journalism. He also keeps busy with various volunteer projects, including judging the 24th, 25th and 26th Annual Western Magazine Awards. He lives and works near the Lake Erie shore in Simcoe, Ontario, about an hour and a half outside Toronto.