Maurice Mierau
Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.Maurice's first book, a collection of poems called Ending with Music (Brick
Books) is about suicide, family history, and survival. His 2005 book, Memoir
of a Living Disease, is about tuberculosis in Manitoba and the career of a
prominent TB doctor, Earl Hershfield.
Maurice was born in the US and grew up in Africa, the Caribbean, and
Saskatchewan. He plays the upright bass occasionally with an amateur
Winnipeg jazz group. His other non-writing interests include playing beer
league basketball with people who are better than he is at the sport.
Maurice sold computers for almost a decade and then tried to explain them
as a technical writer for a few years. He has a 19 year old son, Jeremy,
who plays drums with a band called the Fops and studies computer science
at university.
In 2005 Maurice and his wife Betsy adopted two boys in Ukraine, Bohdan and
Peter. Maurice has written a memoir about the adoption, his family history
in Soviet Ukraine and his globetrotting life, which he’s trying to sell.
An excerpt called "White Pork" appeared in Prairie Fire magazine in summer
2003. In June 2006 Maurice became president of the League of Canadian
Poets.
Awards
Margaret McWilliams Award for institutional history, for the book Memoir of a Living Disease, 2006.
Selected Publications
Ending with Music (Brick Books, 2002)
ISBN: I-894078-23-3
Memoir of a Living Disease (Great Plains, 2005)
ISBN: 1-894283-49-X
Books in Print
Mierau, Maurice
Ending with Music (Brick Books, 2002)
ISBN: I-894078-23-3 $15.00
Memoir of a Living Disease (Great Plains, 2005)
ISBN: 1-894283-49-X $24.95
Maurice Mierau, 43 Dundurn Place, Winnipeg, MB R3G 1C1, (204) 487-3951
mmierau@mts.net
www.mauricemierau.com
