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Mari-Lou Rowley
Mari-Lou Rowley has published ten collections of poetry, most recently Catastrophe Theories (Anvil Press), which was a CBC Books choice for Canadian poetry (spring 2022). Her previous book Unus Mundus, also from Anvil, was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Rowley’s poetry, book chapters and multimedia work have appeared internationally in literary, arts and science-related publications. Rowley is currently the Editor of Grain Magazine and is working on a novel and poetic memoir.
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Michael Trussler
Michael Trussler writes primarily poetry and creative non-fiction. He has received Saskatchewan Book Awards for poetry, non-fiction and short stories. His memoir concerning mental illness, The Sunday Book, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2022. Two poetry collections have recently appeared: Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Mansfield Press, 2021) and The History Forest (University of Regina Press, 2022). Radiant Press and Icehouse Press will be [publishing] poetry collections, Realia and 10:10 respectively in 2024. All his work engages with the beauty and violence of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
“…excellent and diligent writer, scholar and teacher. ” — Mari-Lou Rowley
I would like to nominate Michael Trussler. I know him to be an excellent and diligent writer, scholar and teacher. Michael has recently published two volumes of poetry, The History Forest (U. Regina Press 2022), Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Mansfield Press 2021), and a collection of creative non-fiction essays The Sunday Book (Palimpsest Press 2022). The Sunday Book won the City of Regina and non-fiction categories of the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2023, and The History Forest won in the poetry category.