was Professor of English at Centennial College in Toronto. He has devoted his work to the study of Alice Munro’s linguistic structures. He has edited Short Stories: An Anthology (1984); The Prose Workout (1988). He is now a writer on his own right and has published the following novels: The Boy Must Die (2001), winner of a number of awards; Trumpets Sound No More (2007); Children of the Tide (2015).