Write Now! Presents: Paul Vermeersch
Room: 56
Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, creative writing professor, and literary editor. He is the author of several poetry collections, including The Reinvention of the Human Hand, a finalist for the 2011 Trillium Book Award, and most recently, Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph for which he received the Governor General's Gold Medal. He teaches in the Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program at Sheridan College and is the founding editor of The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing, a new literary journal published by Sheridan's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd. He lives in Toronto. Find him online at www.paulvermeersch.ca.
About Write Now!
This talk is part of Writing 2520A (Write Now! - Writers on Writing) offered by the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University. Writing 2520A is organized around a series of lectures by writers. Every week, a new writer visits the class to read from their work, talk about their writing and their career, and answer questions. Guest lectures are open to Western students, staff and faculty.
For more information please visit: www.uwo.ca/writing.
