TransCanada Literary Reading & Performance Series
Roy Miki
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Friday, March 19, 2010, 4:30pm
TransCanada Institute
University of Guelph
Roy Miki is a writer, poet, and editor who lives in Vancouver. He is the author of numerous publications, including Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), a work that explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement through a creative blend of personal reflection, documentary history, and critical examination, and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Most recently, he has co-edited, with Smaro Kamboureli, Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating
the Study of Canadian Literature (Laurier Press 2007) and has edited Roy Kiyooka’s The Artist and the Moose: A Fable of Forget (LineBooks 2009). He received the Order of Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.