David Zieroth
David Zieroth was born in Neepawa, MB, in 1946. His 2009 collection The Fly in Autumn won the Governor General’s Literary Award. Zieroth also won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for How I Joined Humanity at Last (1998). Other publications include the trick of staying and leaving (2023), the bridge from day to night (2018), Albrecht Dürer and me (2014), The Village of Sliding Time (2006), the speculative-fiction work Zoo and Crowbar (2015) and the memoir The Education of Mr. Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood (2002). His poems have been included in the Best Canadian Poetry series and shortlisted for National Magazine and ReLit awards. He lives in North Vancouver, BC, where he runs The Alfred Gustav Press and produces handmade poetry chapbooks.
