Gary Geddes
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Born in Vancouver in 1940, Gary Geddes has spent much of his life writing and teaching, mostly at Concordia University in Montreal. He has published more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, translation, and criticism, including several anthologies. His work has been broadcast on CBC and BBC radio, translated into seven languages, and received numerous national and international awards. Sailing Home, a floating memoir, was a coast-to-coast bestseller in 2001; Skaldance, a new book of poems, sold out in less than three weeks in 2004 and had to be reprinted. His non-fiction work-in-progress, KINGDOM OF TEN THOUSAND THINGS: The Search for An Asian Marco Polo, which took him to Kabul two weeks before 9/11, is due out in 2005.