Morris House Reading Series 2010-2011

Stephanie Bolster has authored three collections of poetry: White Stone: The Alice Poems (Véhicule Editions, 1998), which won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award; Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), which won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium Award; and Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart, 2002).   She is the editor of The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems­ by Diana Brebner and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, and co-editor of Penned: Zoo Poems.  Her fourth book, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, will appear with Brick Books in 2011. She currently teaches creative writing in the Department of English at Concordia University.

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Susan McMaster has published twelve collections of poetry, three of which have come out in the past three years, including Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me (Black Moss Press, 2009), which has gone into second printing, and Paper Affair: Poems Selected and New (Black Moss), which is slated to appear in the spring of 2010. Her seventh collection of poetry, Until the Light Bends (Black Moss Press, 2004), was shortlisted for both the 2005 Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Poetry Award.

M. NourbeSe Philip is a Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist who is renowned for her experimentation with literary form and for her commitment to social justice.  Her published poetry includes She Tries her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989), Salmon Courage (1983) and Thorns (1980). While still in manuscript form, She Tries Her Tongue won the Cuban Casa de Las Americas prize in 1988. Her prose works include a novel for young adults, titled Harriet's Daughter (1988); essays and articles published in Frontiers  (1992) and Showing Grit (1993); and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991),  a narrative about the metaphoric return to Africa. She has  taught at York University and the University of Toronto, was a Guggenheim Fellow for poetry in 1990-1991, and  received the Toronto Arts Award for Writing and Publishing in 1995.

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Rawi Hage, born in Beirut, moved to Montreal in 1991 where he pursued his artistic and literary career. He is both an accomplished writer and novelist. He has published journalism and fiction in many Canadian magazines, including PEN American Journal. He has published two novels, the first of these being De Niro's Game (Anansi 2006). It was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Award, and won the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.  His second novel is Cockroach (Ananasi 2008), which was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award; it won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, awarded by the Quebec Writers' Federation.

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Richard Van Camp, a member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from the Northwest Territories, Canada, currently teaches Creative Writing for Aboriginal Students at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He has authored two children's books with the Cree artist, George Littlechild, A Man Called Raven and What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? and a collection of short stories, Angel Wing Splash Pattern (Kegedonce Press 2002). He is also author of the novel, The Lesser Blessed (Douglas & McIntyre 2004),which is being turned into a film by First Generation Films.

Steven Heighton has published nine books, including his poetry collections, Stalin's Carnival (Quarry 1989), The Ecstacy of Skeptics (Anansi, 1994)and The Address Book (Anansi, 2004); the short story collections Flight Paths of the Emperor (Porcupine's Quill, 1992)and On Earth as It is (Porcupine's Quill, 1992); and his novels The Shadow Boxer (Knopf, 2000, a bestseller in Canada) and Afterlands (Knopf, 2005), which was published in six countries. His most recent work is The Stages of J Gordon Whitehead (Frog Hollow Press, 2008). His work has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Award, the Journey Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and Britain's W.H. Smith Award. He also worked as editor of the literary journal, Quarry Magazine, and Writer-in-Residence at Concordia University, and Massey College, University of Toronto.