rob mclennan

rob mclennan:  born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, and lives in Ottawa, when he is home full–time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction, and non–fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010 and the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid–Career Award in 2014. His most recent poetry titles include A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). He spent the 2007–8 academic year in Edmonton as writer–in–residence at the University of Alberta.