He created and edited his high-school literary magazine, The House of the Dying Tree and wrote articles for the youth newspaper CounterPress, and later self-published several issues of the 'zines, Tenement and Edifice Rex, the precursor to this very website.
Professionally, he has produced stories and written scripts for CBC Radio and contributed to the Globe and Mail's Books section.
He is the Managing Editor of, and frequent contributor to, the online newsmagazine True North Perspective. He designed and built True North's website in collaboration with technical analyst Carl Hall. He is also responsible for all aspects of this site, ed-rex.com, the good and the bad.
Geoffrey Dow studied the fine art of editing fiction under the writer, editor and anthologist Judy Merril and spent many hours in the National Archives in Ottawa analyzing and selecting material from her private correspondence for inclusion in what eventually became her post-humous memoir, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril.
He has provided in-depth manuscript analysis and script-doctoring and has recently seen from initial proposal to publication the full-length book, The Frankford Continuation School: A Brief History as Seen Through the Eyes of The Wolf, which reproduced in facsimile surviving editions of The Wolf, the magazine of record of the Frankford Continuation School in the post-Second-World War era.
He is currently producing the tabloid-sized publication of the Ottawa Independent Writers' Capital Letter on an ongoing basis, the third issue of which appeared in early June 2011.
