Mark Abley has wide experience as a poet, journalist, editor, and author of literary non-fiction. His most recent book is a memoir of his father, The Organist: Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind (2019). It won praise in such places as Literary Review of Canada, Maclean’s, CBC Radio, theMontreal Gazette, and the Toronto Star. Mark is the author of four books of poetry, including The Tongues of Earth: New and Selected Poems (2015). Other non-fiction books include Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003) and Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott (2013). A Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow, he worked for many years as a feature writer and language columnist for theGazette. He has taught non-fiction courses for the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Maritime Writers’ Workshop, and the Quebec Writers’ Federation. In the classroom he prefers an interactive style rather than a lecture format, but he would be happy to give readings and take part in panel discussions.
WEBSITE: www.markabley.com