Fred Wah
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Frederick James Wah (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian-Chinese poet, novelist, and scholar.
Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but raised in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Columbia. His father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman raised in China and his mother a Swedish-born Canadian.
Wah studied literature and music at the University of British Columbia. While there, he was a founding editor and contributor to TISH. He later did graduate work at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He has taught at Selkirk College, David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. Well known for his work on literary journals and small-press, Wah has been a contributing editor to Open Letter since its beginning, involved in the editing of West Coast Line, and with Frank Davey edited the world's first online literary magazine, SwiftCurrent.
Wah retired after 40 years of teaching and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife Pauline Butling. He remains active writing and performing public readings of his poetry. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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[edit] Education
- Bachelor of Arts - English Literature and Music - University of British Columbia
- Master of Arts - Literature and Linguistics - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
[edit] Bibliography
- Lardeau - 1965
- Mountain - 1967
- Among - 1972
- Tree - 1972
- Earth - 1974
- Pictograms from the Interior of B.C. - 1975
- Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poetry - 1980
- Owners Manual - 1981
- Breathin' My Name With a Sigh - 1981
- Grasp The Sparrow's Tail - 1982
- Waiting for Saskatchewan - 1985
- The Swift Current Anthology - 1986 (edited with Frank Davey)
- Rooftops - 1987
- Music at the Heart of Thinking - 1987
- Limestone Lakes Utaniki - 1989
- So Far - 1991
- Alley Alley Home Free - 1992
- Diamond Grill - 1996
[edit] Awards
- Waiting For Saskatchewan - 1985 (1985 Governor General's Award for poetry)
- So Far - 1991 (1982 Stephanson Award for Poetry)
- Diamond Grill - 1996 (Writers Guild of Alberta Howard O'Hagan Prize for Short Fiction)
