Maxine Gadd

Maxine Gadd was born in England in 1940 and moved to the West Coast of Canada when she was a child. After attending Kitsilano High School, she received her B.A. from the University of British Columbia. Gadd is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Guns of the West (blewointment 1967), Lost Language (Coach House Books, 1982), Fire in the Cove, (M(O)ther Tongue, 2001), and Subway Under Byzantium (New Star, 2008), to name just a few.