Stan Dragland
Stan Dragland was born and brought up in Alberta. He was educated at The University of Alberta and Queen's University. He has
taught at the University of Alberta, at The Grammar School, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, in the English Department at the University
of Western Ontario in London, and in the Banff Centre Writing Studio. He now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. He was founding
editor of Brick, a journal of reviews and founder of Brick Books, a poetry publishing house, which he still serves as
publisher and editor. Between 1993 and 1996 he was poetry editor for McClelland and Stewart. He has published three books of
fiction: Peckertracks, a Chronicle (shortlisted for the 1978 Books in Canada First Novel Prize), Journeys
Through Bookland and Other Passages, and (for children) Simon Jesse's Journey. He has edited collections of essays
on Duncan Campbell Scott and James Reaney. Wilson MacDonald's Western Tour, a "critical collage," has been followed by two other
books of criticism, The Bees of the Invisible: Essays in Contemporary English Canadian Writing and Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell
Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which won the 1995 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism. 12 Bars, a prose blues,
was co-winner of the bp Nichol Chapbook Award in 2003, the same year Apocrypha: Further Journeys appeared in NeWest Press' Writer-as-Critic
series. Apocrypha was winner of the Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award in 2005. In April 2004 the stage adaptation of Halldór Laxness'
The Atom Station, co-written with Agnes Walsh, was performed at the LSPU Hall in St. John's. Stormy Weather: Foursomes was shortlisted
for the 2007 E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize, prose poetry from Pedlar Press. His latest book, a novel from Pedlar Press, is The Drowned Lands.
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