Christopher Dewdney Author

Christopher Dewdney is the author of five books of non-fiction and eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award, he won first prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize, given in recognition of his contribution to Canadian Literature. His non-fiction book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the World After Dark, was nominated for both a Governor General’s Literary Award and the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and was published in six countries. Fascinated by weather phenomena from a young age, Dewdney lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York University.