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Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books: two novels, a collection of short stories and two children's books. Quintet, his most recent novel, won the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award. It received rave reviews from The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and The Halifax Herald. His children's book The Magic Compass is part of the Atlantic Collection, a project of the Nova Scotia Department of Education. For six years he was managing editor and publisher of the literary magazine Pottersfield Portfolio, and his short stories and translations have appeared in magazines and journals in Canada and Denmark, including Matrix, Pottersfield Portfolio and B&A. Douglas is past president of WFNS and an accomplished workshop leader in creative writing. For the past several years he has served as writer-in-residence at two Cape Breton elementary schools. In 2009 he was awarded a Nova Scotia Established Artist prize, appears in the 100th anniversary edition of The Canadian Who's Who (University of Toronto Press) and serves on the National Council of The Writers' Union of Canada as second vice-chair.