Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing

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Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing

Edited by: Birk Sproxton

A collection of essays, interviews, rants, manifestos, notes and poems. Thirty-one prairie contributors, including David Arnason, Dennis Cooley, Dorothy Livesay, Robert Kroetsch, Patrick Friesen, and Margaret Laurence.

AUTHOR

Birk Sproxton

Birk Sproxton’s books include the long poem Headframe:, the novel The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart, and the collection Phantom Lake: North of 54. He is the editor of The Winnipeg Connection, Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing, and Great Stories from the Prairies. He was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, where he grew up listening to tall tales of the North.