About the Author
Cyril Dabydeen's work has been pubished in liteary magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He is the author of numerous wolrks of poetry and fiction including Coastland: New and Selected Poems (1989), Dark Swirl (1989), Stoning the Wind(1994) and My Brahmin Days and Other Stories (2000). He was born in Guyana, South America, where he became a gold medallist in poetry at an early age. Later he came to Canada and completed his formal education at Queen's University. He was the Poet Laureate of Ottawa from 1986-1987.
