Roger Nash

Roger Nash was born in Maidenhead, England, in 1942. Surviving the blitz, and being bombed out of his pram, he was raised in Egypt and Singapore. He arrived in Canada in 1965, and has lived mainly in Sudbury since, though with a stint at farming in the Tawatinaw valley, northern Alberta. He travels frequently in the Middle East (Egypt, Jordan, Israel) and Asia (Thailand, Hong-Kong, China). He is married to psychologist and educator, Chris Nash. They have two sons, Piers and Caedmon.

Nash received a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter, and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University. He is currently President of the League of Canadian Poets. His poetry has won a number of awards, including the Canadian Jewish Book Awards Prize for Poetry (1997), the Confederation Poets Prize (1997), Fiddlehead's 1st. Prize for Poetry (1994), and Prism International's 1st. Prize for Poetry (1986).

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