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Kent Baker

Brief Biography

Novelist, short story writer, children's author, broadcaster, and playwright Kent Baker teaches literature and fiction writing part time at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. Kent has had a variety of creative work published or produced and is currently busy with a collection of poetry, A Recession of Leaves, and a new novel which is as yet untitled.

An MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Kent also has an Iowa MA in 19th Century English Literature, and a BA in Literature and Theatre from the University of Connecticut. His radio plays and satire were a feature of CBC radio in the 1970s.

Selected List of Publications

Finster Frets. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1992. Re-released Spring 1994 with audio tape: Don Herron Reading.
Troll Children's Book Club selection Summer 1994.
"Baker's fresh, fun-filled writing brings giggles, chuckles and outright belly laughs to the listener and the reader. The storyline bounces along with zip and zest, packed full of adventure that never ends." - from "Finster Frets a belly full of laughs." Review by Jackie Fife. Chatham This Week, September 9, 1992.
A Man Wanders Sometimes. Stoddart Publishing, 1989.
"The setting for this impressive first novel is a coastal community in rural Nova Scotia, but its real location is in the tidal flats of the mind, somewhere between illusion and reality, between dream and waking. Kent Baker picks his way through the flotsam with the poise and aplomb usually attained only by more experienced novelists. He's a kind of intellectual clam-digger." - from "Life in the tidal flats of the mind." Review by William French. Globe and Mail, January 13, 1990.
"Country Boy" in Ampersand, 1974, Peoria, Illinois.
Excerpt from novel Primal Quilt in Glymph, 1974, New York, New York.
"Assumptions" in Northeast Review (special experimental fiction issue), 1974, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
"A Modern Grammar" in The Bennington Review, 1970, Bennington, Vermont.
Runner-up for the Playwright's Union of Canada's Second Annual International Monologue Competition Chapbook.

Selected List of Productions

Chances. CBC's Audio Stage, 1978, Halifax.
Mildred. CBC radio's Anthology, 1978, Toronto.
A Separate Strength. CBC Stage, 1976, Toronto.
A Change in Course. CBC's Audio Stage, 1976, Halifax.