Seldom Seen Road

John Degen is a poet and novelist with three published books. His debut novel, The Uninvited Guest, was shortlisted for the 2006 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and given feature reviews in the Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire.

His essays and opinions have been published widely throughout Canada, including in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Hill Times, Canadian Notes and Queries, The BC Review, THIS Magazine, Quill & Quire, and the Literary Review of Canada. He has served on many boards and advisories in the literary and arts sector including terms as Chair of the Book & Periodical Council, THIS Magazine, and the Canadian Creators' Coalition. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from the University of Toronto.

Degen has worked on behalf of other authors for the past thirty years. He is Chief Executive Officer of The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC), and Chair of the International Authors Forum (IAF) in the UK. He lives and works, happily, in Thessalon, Ontario, with occasional reluctant visits to Toronto and Ottawa.