Derek Beaulieu
b. 1973.
Derek Beaulieu is the author and editor of more than 25 collections of poetry, prose, and criticism . His most recent volume of fiction, Silence , is forthcoming from Sweden’s Timglaset Books, while his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension (2022), was published by Toronto’s Coach House Books. Beaulieu has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Albertan literature, and he is the only graduate from the University of Calgary’s Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts Celebrated Alumni Award. Beaulieu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University, abd has served as poet laureate of both Calgary and Banff, and as Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
From When Poetry Took Over the Blockchain, July 2023
