Morris House Reading Series 2005-2006

These were the writers who came to Bishop's University for the
Morris House Reading Series between 2005 and 2006:

Michael Harris

Michael Harris is an award-winning Canadian poet and translator. He has eight books of poetry to his credit, including Miss Emily et la Mort (1985), In Transit (1985), and Circus, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 2010. He has taught at McGill University, Concordia University, and Dawson College. He currently lives in Montreal.

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Ann Scowcroft

Ann Scowcroft is a professor of English Literature and Language Acquisition at l'Universite de Sherbrooke. She is the co-editor of a series of anthologies, entitled Taproot: Poetry, Prose and Images from the Eastern Townships. In 2001, she collaborated with artist Richard Purdy on the book Atlas of the Afterlife. Scowcroft made the long list for the Tupelo Press First Book Prize in 2005, and was a finalist for the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize in 2001, and for the Short Grain Fiction Contest in 1992. In 2003, she won the SRC Teaching Award at Bishop's University.

Deborah Stiles

Deborah Stiles was born and raised in Appalachia, in West Virginia, but found herself moving northward in 1988. A graduate of the University of Maine's M.A. in Creative Writing in 1990 with the thesis No Curtains on These Windows (a collection of short stories), she has published poems, short stories, agriculture and cooking articles, and scholarly articles in a wide variety of journals in Canada and the U.S. In 2002, BrickHouse Books (Baltimore, Maryland), published her book-length poem, Movement Catalogued; in 1991, Northern LightsPress (Orono, Maine) published her poetry collection, Riding Limestone. She has completed two additional poetry manuscripts, whose poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Carleton Arts Review, To, Kennebec, Zymergy, Nashwaak Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, and elsewhere. In 1997, after living in Fredericton, NB for three years, she applied for landed immigrant status and also completed her Ph.D. (University of Maine, History) with a doctoral thesis on the Fredericton-based-but rurally-oriented poet and newspaper editor, Martin Butler (1857-1915). In January 2004, she became a Canadian citizen.

Anne Compton

Anne Compton is a Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist. Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. Compton is an assistant professor in University of New Brunswick Saint John's Department of Humanities and Languages. She is also the Director of the Lorenzo Reading Series at the University of New Brunswick, and serves on the New Brunswick Arts Board. Her first collection, Opening the Island, was nominated for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and won the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2002. Compton won again in 2006 the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She won the Governor General's Award for poetry in English in 2005 for her collection Processional. Compton has also published criticism, including a book of interviews, Meetings with Maritime Poets (2006). In 2008, she was awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts, presented by the New Brunswick Arts Board. Compton was a featured writer at the 2007 Maritime Writers' Workshop & Literary Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Allan Cooper

Allan Cooper, poet, musician and publisher, lives and works in Alma, New Brunswick, a small village on the Bay of Fundy. He has published 10 books of poems. His most recent book is Singing the Flowers Open, published by Gaspereau Press. Cooper has been writing for 30 years and has been playing music for as long. For the past several years he has been one third of the popular blues trio, Isaac, Blewett and Cooper. But for Cooper all roads eventually lead back to poetry.

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