ABOUT TREVOR CAROLAN

Trevor Carolan was born in Yorkshire. His family emigrated to British Columbia in 1957 and he began writing at 17 filing dispatches from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury music scene. For three years he travelled Britain, Europe and India before mastering in English at Humboldt State University in 1978. He studied with Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, served as literary coordinator for the XV Olympic Winter Games, and has published works of fiction, memoir, poetry, translation, and anthologies.

A contributor to Shambhala Sun, The Bloomsbury Review, Choice, Nguoi Viet, and Kyoto Journal, he travels widely in Asia and is research associate with the David See-Chai Lam Center for International Communications at Simon Fraser University. Active in Pacific coast watershed issues, he lives in North Vancouver where he served for three years as elected municipal councillor.

Currently, he writes as civic affairs columnist for the North Shore News and teaches English at University College of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver. He is also affiliated with the Department of International Relations at Bond University, Queensland, Australia.

His travel novel The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz is published by Anchor. Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg At Hollyhock, a memoir of his acquaintance with the beloved late poet is published by the Banff Centre Press. Celtic Highway, a collection of poetry is published by Ekstasis. His current title, Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master (Marlowe & Co., New York), is an account of his twenty years as a student of this traditional Chinese wisdom path with Tai Chi Master Ng Ching-Por in Vancouver's Chinatown.

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