Don McKay
Don McKay was awarded the Order of Canada in December 2008 “for his contributions to Canadian literature as a nature poet and mentor of many emerging writers from coast to coast.”
He is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry, for Night Field and Another Gravity. McKay has written twelve books of poetry, including Birding, or Desire and Apparatus. A recent collection, Camber: Selected Poems, was a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year.
Slip/Strike won both the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2007.
He has worked as an editor and creative writing teacher at University of Western Ontario, University of New Brunswick, Brick Books, Sage Hill Writing Experience, the BC Festival of the Arts, and The Banff Centre. From 1991 to 1996, he was editor of Fiddlehead magazine.
At present, Don makes his home in St John’s, Newfoundland.
