Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer and editor. His work has recently appeared in the Malahat Review, Dandelion, CV2, and Prairie Fire. Turnstone will publish Maurice's second book of poems in the fall of 2008 as Fear Not. His first book of poems was Ending with Music (Brick, 2002).

Memoir of a Living Disease, a non-fiction book, won a Margaret McWilliams Award from the Manitoba Historical Society in 2006. You can buy it here.

Maurice recently became associate editor of a new Winnipeg-based fiction imprint, Enfield & Wizenty, a subsidiary of Great Plains Publications. In addition he works as a poetry editor for Contemporary Verse 2 and for Geez magazine, and serves as president of the League of Canadian Poets.

Here's Maurice reading his poem "How to be a man": Thanks to George Godwin, videographer, and Enrique Fernandez for technical assistance.

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