Stefano Buckley 

I am a writer, farmer, and photographer living on unceded K’ómoks territory, in British Columbia, Canada. My family is of Italian, Ukrainian, Irish, and French heritage. This has resulted in an interest in the histories and cultures that intersect in my life, and those of the world more broadly. I have travelled throughout Europe and the Pacific Northwest, distilling what I have experienced through writing and photography.

I want to explore relationships to place, and share what I have learned from different landscapes, foods, traditions, stories, histories, and languages. I believe that doing so enriches our own humanness, and allows us to better connect to the world we are a part of. 

My non-fiction pieces, personal narratives, and academic articles have been published in The Tyee, Folklife magazine, The Hopper, Release Peace magazine, and Duke University’s Historia Nova, all available in the Portfolio. I also publish a Substack, Grasstreading https://substack.com/@grasstreading.

My photography can be found on Instagram (@stefanobuckley), and on this site.

Besides writing and photography, food is my third focus. Food is connection to the land, connection to others, connection to ourselves. Whenever I have lacked a common language with people, our communication has come through the sharing of food. Food threads through all of the subjects I explore through my writing and photography—uniting land with tradition, joining history to the living present.

This relationship to food has led to my path as a farmer. Being a farmer is elemental, and it is the physical to the mental (in both senses) of the written word. If my writing explores the relationships we build with the land, it is in farming that I embody my own expression of this relationship.

Together, they are the two halves that make up my work.

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