Warren Cariou

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Warren Cariou is a writer and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. He received a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Saskatchewan and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto (1998). In 1999 he published a book of short stories: The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs. This was followed up in 2002 with his nonfiction effort Lake of the Prairies, which won the 2002 Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography and in was shortlisted for the 2004 Charles Taylor Prize. He is currently working on a novel titled Exhaust. Cariou is married to the poet and Literature Professor Alison Calder.