The STU Reader

About Fred CogswellHermenegilde ChiassonPhilip LeeWayne Curtis

Douglas Vipond joined the psychology department in 1977. He taught in the writing program and has published a number of articles and reviews on reading and writing many of them with Russ Hunt. He co-edited special issues of Poetics and Textual Studies in Canada and has written two books: Writing and Psychology (Praeger 1993) and Success in Psychology: Writing and Research for Canadian Students (Harcourt 1996). Russell A. Hunt joined the English department in 1968. He co-authored K.C. Irving: The Art of the Industrialist (M&S 1973) and has published journalism and scholarship in a wide range of journals and collections. He was a founder of the alternative journal the Mysterious East and of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning. On campus he participated in the creation of the writing program the Learning and Teaching Development Office and the first-year interdisciplinary Aquinas Program. A journalist lecturer and bestselling writer Philip Lee began his career as an investigative reporter on Canadas east coast. Restigouche emerged from his long-standing interest in rivers and the people who love them. His first book Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon grew out of his award-winning reporting on the decline of the Atlantic salmon. Lee is also the author of Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna a national bestseller and Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man which was long-listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. A professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton Lee developed the Dalton Camp lecture series broadcast annually by CBC Radios Ideas and edited The Next Big Thing (a published collection from the lectures). When he is not writing and teaching Lee spends as much time as he can following the currents of rivers. Herménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry over 30 plays and several collections of essays. A multi-disciplinary artist he has received numerous awards for his work including the Governor Generals Award for poetry the Molson Prize le prix France-Acadie le Grand prix de la francophonie canadienne the prestigious Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Prix littéraire Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie. From 2003 to 2009 he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. Fred Cogswell (d. 2004) was a poet UNB professor editor translator and mentor to many aspiring writers. A long-serving editor of The Fiddlehead and founder of Fiddlehead Poetry Books he was the author of more than twenty books of verse. With Jo-Anne Elder he translated Climats and Conversations by Herménégilde Chiasson and edited and translated Rêves inachevés / Unfinished Dreams (Goose Lane 1990) an anthology of contemporary Acadian poets. Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan New Brunswick on the banks of the Miramichi River. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and at St. Thomas University. He started writing prose in the late 1960s. His essays have appeared in the Globe and Mail Outdoor Canada Fly Fishermen and the Atlantic Salmon Journal.