Fred Wah

Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan but grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. . His book of prose-poems, Waiting For Saskatchewan, received the Governor-General's Award in 1986, and he has since won awards for both poetry and fiction. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s,and was a founding editor of the poetry newsletter TISH. After graduate work in literature and linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the State University of New York at Buffalo, he returned to the Kootenays in the late 1960s where he taught at Selkirk College and was the founding coordinator of the writing program at David Thompson University Centre. After teaching poetry and poetics at the University of Calgary for many years, he now lives in Vancouver where he writes and is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing.  His latest collections of poetry are Sentenced to Light (2008), is a door (2009), and a selectionedited by Louis Cabri, The False Laws of Narrative (2009).Messing Around With Mr In-Between, Saturday, March 20, 3pm.