Cyril Dabydeen Author

Cyril Dabydeen's work has appeared in over 70 literary magazines and anthologies, including The Critical Quarterly, The Warwick Review, Prairie Schooner, Canadian Literature, World Literature Today, and in the Heinemann, Oxford and Penguin Books of Caribbean Verse. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, he edited Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today (2011). Among his books are Imaginary Origins: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press) and Drums of My Flesh (2007), which was nominated for the IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize. He has done over 300 readings from his books across Canada, the USA, UK/Europe, and the Caribbean (Cuba, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, St Lucia, Guyana). He has taught writing at the University of Ottawa, Canada for many years.