About the Editor

Mark Abley is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer. He has published three books of poetry, two children’s books and several works of non-fiction. He has won Canada's National Newspaper Award for critical writing and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research into language change. He is Anne Szumigalski’s literary executor.

Born in Warwickshire, England, he moved to Canada as a small boy, won a Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Saskatchewan and has been a contributing editor of both Maclean’s and Saturday Night magazines, and a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. For sixteen years he worked as a feature writer and book-review editor at the Montreal Gazette. He lives in Montreal.