GARY GEDDES has written and edited more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation, and anthologies, including 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics, and been the recipient of a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the post-Pinochet government of Chile, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti, and Mario Benedetti. His non-fiction books include Letters from Managua, Sailing Home, Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, Drink the Bitter Root, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care and Bearing Witness. His most recent books of poetry are What Does A House Want?, The Resumption of Play, The Ventriloquist and The Oysters I Bring to Banquets. Geddes has a PhD from the University of Toronto and has taught at Concordia; Western Washington University, as Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture; the University of Missouri-St. Louis; and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, UBC’s Green College, Ottawa University, and the Vancouver Public Library. He lives on Thetis Island, BC with his wife, the novelist Ann Eriksson.
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