Authors

Maurice Mierau was born in Indiana and grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas, and Saskatchewan. His first book of poems, Ending with Music (Brick Books, 2002), was a finalist for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award, and Mierau was short-listed for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Author. He also won a Margaret McWilliams Award. He lives with his family in Winnipeg, where he works as a writer, editor, and teacher.