Brian Bartlett
Brian Bartlett was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, in 1953, grew up in Fredericton, lived for 15 years in Montreal, and moved to Halifax in 1990, to begin teaching creative writing and literature at Saint Mary’s University, where he can still be found today. He has published four collections and three chapbooks of poems, as well as Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, published by Peterloo Poets of Cornwall, England, and Gooselane Editions in Canada which won the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize.
Bartlett also won the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize in 1991 and 1998, and first prize in the Petra Kenney Awards in 2001. Short stories of his have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Anthology. In 1993 he was awarded a Banff Writers’ Studio Scholarship, and in 1996 he travelled to Scotland on an Hawthornden Castle International Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. For many years he has been writing Living with Poetry, a compilation of essays, journals, memoirs, columns, introductions, and other prose pieces about poetry. Two of his personal essays have appeared in Brick. He recently edited Don McKay: Essays on His Works, forthcoming in Guernica’s Writers’ Series in 2004.