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. In 2005 he served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is currently working on a novel titled Exhaust. Cariou is married to the poet and Literature Professor Alison Calder.