Maurice Mierau was born in Indiana and grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas, and Saskatchewan. His first book of poems,
Ending with Music was a finalist for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award, and Mierau was short-listed for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Author.
Memoir of a Living Disease, his non-fiction book, won a Margaret McWilliams Award. His work has been published in
Arc,
The Malahat Review,
The New Quarterly,
Prairie Fire and other magazines. He lives with his family in Winnipeg.
