Greg Buium (born 1969, Vancouver, British Columbia), a graduate of McGill (B.A. 1992) and the University of Chicago (M.A. 1994), has spent nearly two decades working as a journalist in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver.
His articles on culture have appeared in the Believer, the Walrus, CBC.ca, and most of Canada’s metropolitan dailies, including the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun.
Our Fractured Story, his feature-length documentary on history, memory, and digital culture, was produced for Ideas, CBC Radio’s flagship program, in 2012.
A noted music critic, he has contributed to Down Beat, the Wire, and Coda, among many others. His writing on jazz and improvised music has been translated into Spanish and German and was included in the McSweeney’s anthology Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews (2014). He has written liner notes to numerous recordings for independent labels in Canada, Switzerland, and the U.K.
His column, Jumpin’ In, appears quarterly in Point of Departure.
He lives with his family in Vancouver.