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Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison is the author of 5 books of poetry including Hero of  the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition, and Big Breath of a Wish which won the City of Calgary/W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry for 1999. His forthcoming book, Worthy of His Fall, featuring poems on faith and violence, will be released by Wolsak & Wynn in 2005.

Richard’s poems have been translated into  French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. He has read widely in Canada and the United States and his work has been featured on many TV and radio broadcasts including "Adrienne Clarkson Presents" and "Peter Gzowski’s Morningside".
His essays have appeared in several academic publications as well as in The Globe and Mail, The Manchester Guardian and The New York Times.

Richard lives in Calgary with his wife Lisa and their children, Emma and Keeghan, and he teaches English and Creative Writing at Mount Royal College.