Brian Brett is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist. He has been writing and publishing since the late 1960s, and he has worked as an editor for several publishing firms, including the Governor-General's Award-winning Blackfish Press. He has also written a three-part memoir of his life in British Columbia
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Early life
Brett was born in British Columbia.
He grew up with a rare endocrine disorder, Kallmann syndrome, which prevented
his body from entering puberty; he later wrote a memoir about the effect this
has had on his life. Brett attended Simon Fraser University between 1969
and 1974, studying literature.
Brian Brett, former chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a journalist for four decades, is best known as a poet, memoir writer, and fictionist.
He is the author of thirteen books
including his memoir, Uproar’s Your Only Music, which was a Globe and Mail Book
Of The Year selection. Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, won numerous
prizes, including the Writers’ Trust annual award for non-fiction. To Your
Scattered Bodies Go won the CBC poetry prize in 2011. A collection of poems,
The Wind River Variations was released in 2014. And the final book in his
trilogy of memoirs, Tuco, was published in 2015 and was awarded the Hubert
Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Brian Brett was the 2016 recipient of
the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement.
