Tuesday, February 11

Mark Abley + Sharon McCartney

Mark Abley

A Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, shortlisted for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal.

Mark Abley is the author of three books of poetry and several works of non-fiction. A Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow, he has won the National Newspaper Award for critical writing and been shortlisted for both the Writers' Trust non-fiction prize and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. He was born in England, grew up in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and has lived in the Montreal area since the 1980s. His most recent book is  Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott.

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Sharon McCartney

Author of Hard Ass (2013, Palimpsest Press)

Sharon McCartney is the author of Hard Ass (2013, Palimpsest), For and Against (2010, Goose Lane Editions), The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2007, Nightwood Editions), Karenin Sings the Blues (2003, Goose Lane Editions) and Under the Abdominal Wall (1999, Anvil Press). In 2008, she received the Acorn/Plantos People's Prize for poetry for The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

 

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