Dr. Trevor Carolan
Author
Born in Yorkshire, Trevor Carolan emigrated as a boy to New Westminster, BC and was raised in the family building trade. He began writing for the city newspaper at age 17. After travelling Europe and India for three years he completed an M.A. in English at Humboldt State in California. He later worked with the 15th Olympic Winter Games in Calgary.
He has 14 published books of creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, translation, memoir, and anthologies. Dr. Carolan has worked as media advocate on behalf of international human rights, refugees and famine relief, Canadian First Nations land claims, and Pacific Coast logging and watershed issues.
He served as a councilor in North Vancouver for three years, then as a political columnist. In 2007 he received an Interdisciplinary PhD from Bond University in Queensland, Australia and now teaches English at University of the Fraser Valley.
His current work is entitled Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific. His other works include the novel The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz; Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master, for which he received a Spirituality & Health Best Books of the Year citation in 2003; and Celtic Highway, a collection of poetry.
Website: www.trevorcarolan.com
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Updated: February 19, 2010