1 Mark Anthony Jarman 76 Waterloo Row Fredericton, NB E3B 1Y9 Telephone: (506) 206 -2424 E-mail:
[email protected] EDUCATION M.F.A., 1983 University of Iowa, Writers’ Workshop, awarded Research Assistantship and Teaching Assistantship B.A., 1980 University of Victoria, Double Major in English and Creative Writing, awarded President’s Scholarship, graduated First Class With Distinction HONOURS A.S. Byatt chose my collection 19 Knives as a book of the year in The Guardian (UK) I was commissioned to write a web-story for Canada Code and the Cultural Olympiad, a component of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Games Invited to read at The Distinguished Lecture Series in Canadian Studies, University College Dublin; the Seamus Heaney Centre for Writing, Belfast; the Canadian Embassy, Rome; the University of Alberta; York University; McGill University; the West Cork Literary Festival; Sheffield Hallam University; Manchester Central Library; and the Cork World Book Festival (2008-2013) and Harbourfront’s International Festival of Authors (2000) Subject of the TV show Past Lives, broadcast on Global TV and based on my travel book, Ireland’s Eye Included in Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books of All Time Winner of Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest, 2013 Winner of SubTerrain Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, 2011 Winner of Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest, 2011 Winner of the Jack Hodgins Founders’ Award for Fiction, 2008 Winner of Prairie Fire and MacNally Robinson Bookseller’s Prize in Nonfiction, 2006 Subject of Conference Presentation at the International