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Gary Barwin
The author of 23 books of poetry and fiction, Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Hamilton, Ontario and the author of the nationally bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates (Random House) which won the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His poetry includes No TV for Woodpeckers (poetry; Wolsak and Wynn, 2018) and, forthcoming, A Cemetery for Holes, a poetry collaboration with Tom Prime (Gordon Hill Press, 2019), For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019), and Muttertongue, a book/CD collaboration with Lillian Allen and Gregory Betts (Book*hug, 2019). A Ph.D. in music composition, Barwin has been writer-in-residence at McMaster University and University of Western Ontario and Wilfrid Laurier University in winter 2019.