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Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer, editor and teacher. His second book of poems, Fear Not, won the ReLit Award for poetry in 2009.

Maurice’s first book of poems was Ending with Music (Brick, 2002). It was described
by the University of Toronto Quarterly as “a marvelously energetic performance.” Memoir of a
Living Disease, Maurice’s non-fiction book, won a Margaret McWilliams Award from the
Manitoba Historical Society in 2006.

Maurice is associate editor of a Winnipeg-based fiction imprint, Enfield & Wizenty.
In addition he works as a poetry editor for Contemporary Verse 2.
He is past president of the League of Canadian Poets.

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    Like most writers I enter more contests that I’ll normally admit in public. Either through incompetence, bad luck, or sending the wrong stuff, I don’t usually win anything.
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  • Spring time at the Banff Writing Studio

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