About Nowick Gray

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950, I lived also near New York, Atlanta and Chicago while growing up. After attending Dartmouth College, I continued my travels throughout the western states and Canada. I completed my formal education with an M.A. and teacher training in British Columbia, and taught in Inuit villages in northern Quebec for three years. In 1980 I settled in a small mountain community in B.C., where I established a homestead, built a house and started a family of my own. In 2002 I sold my house and moved to the city (Victoria, B.C.), where I run an online editing business, teach drumming, and play music for African dance classes and a world-beat percussion band.

Having worked also as a carpenter, treeplanter and nonviolence trainer, I've continued a lifelong devotion to writing. My poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies.

Adult Heroes by Chronology (1968- )

Joseph Heller, Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Mann, Emerson, Whitman, Nietzsche, Miles Davis, Kazantzakis, Henry Miller, Earle Birney, Friedrich Schlegel, Jack Kerouac, Inuit Tales, Scott Nearing, Stephen King, Michael Chrichton, Gandhi, Gene Sharp, Jack Vance, Olatunji, Mamady Keita, Hunter S. Thompson, Eckhardt Tolle, Famoudou Konate.

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