<link href="../Styles/ProjectCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <style type="text/css"> .textwrap { float: right; margin: 10px; } </style> <meta content="urn:uuid:e0000000-0000-0000-0000-000001725337" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <div class="box1"> <div class="para11"> <span class="text53">About the Author</span> <div class="para11"> <span class="text53"> </span> <div class="box3" style="text-align: left;"> <span class="text53"><img alt="Babstock.jpg" class="textwrap" height="108" src="../Images/Babstock566.jpg" width="92"/></span> </div> <div class="box3" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="para11"> <div class="para16" style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="text21">Ken Babstock’s most recent collection, <span class="text24">Methodist Hatchet</span> <span class="text21">(Anansi, 2011), won the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. His previous collections of poetry include <span class="text24">Mean</span> <span class="text21">(1999), winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award,</span> <span class="text24">Days into Flatspin</span> <span class="text21">(2001), winner of a K. M. Hunter Award and finalist for the Winterset Prize, and</span> <span class="text24">Airstream Land Yacht</span> <span class="text21">(2006), finalist for the Griffin Prize for Poetry, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Winterset Prize, and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His poems have been translated into Dutch, German, Serbo-Croatian, Czech and French, and he has appeared at festivals in Rotterdam, Brisbane, Sarajevo, New York and Brno. He was awarded a year-long international artist residency in Berlin by the DAAD. Ken was born in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto.</span></span></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>