Ian Cosh

Ian Cosh is a writer and anthropologist based in Toronto whose work combines oral history, ethnography, archival investigation, and literary nonfiction. His first book, Ghosts of Ortona: Reckoning with the Traumas of Canadian World War II Veterans (Sutherland House, 2026), draws on interviews and archival research conducted in Canada, Italy, and Germany to explore the long aftermath of war through the stories of veterans and civilian survivors, and the uneasy relationship between lived experience and public memory. He studied history and anthropology at McGill University and holds a PhD in social anthropology from York University. He is currently writing essays on war memory and literary representation.