Colin Morton

Colin Morton was born in Toronto, grew up in Calgary and now lives in Ottawa, where two of his books of poetry have won the Archibald Lampman Award and one was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award in fiction. He published two books with Seraphim Editions - Dance, Misery, 2003, and The Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and other Poems, 2007. More recently he has published The Local Cluster with U.S. publisher Pecan Grove Press (2008) and, last fall, The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major with BuschekBooks of Ottawa. The Hundred Cuts is a meditation on enduring themes in our history. You can reach him at
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmorton/