The Ventriloquist

Gary Geddes has written and edited more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies and has received more than a dozen national and international literary awards, including the National Magazine Gold Award, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Lt.-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the Government of Chile, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti, and Mario Benedetti. He taught English and Creative Writing for many years at Concordia University and has served as writer-in-residence at universities and libraries in Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Nanaimo and New Westminster, as well as Visiting Writer at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University in Bellingham. He lectures and performs worldwide. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Chinese. He lives on Thetis Island with his wife, the novelist Ann Eriksson.