Michael Crummey Biography

Michael Crummey moved to Kingston Ontario to pursue graduate work but dropped out before finishing his Ph. D. He has taught ESL in China and worked at the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Guatemala. Now the author of three books of poetry and a book of short stories as well as a novel he lives in St. John's Newfoundland. In 1994 he won the inaugural Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry and his first book of poems was published two years later. Arguments with Gravity which travels from pre-Confederation Newfoundland to contemporary Central America won the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. His second collection Hard Light a retelling of his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of half a century ago conjures a world of hard work and heavy weather shot through with humour endurance and love; in its imagery and sensibility it compares to Michael Turner's poems about a British Columbia salmon cannery in Company Town. Crummey's latest collection published in 2001 is Emergency Roadside Assistance.

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