Gordon Rodgers (born 1952 in Gander,

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

) is a Canadian writer.

Biography

Rodgers is the author of two books of poetry: ''Floating Houses'' (1984), and ''The Pyrate Latitudes'' (1986), as well as a novella entitled ''The Phoenix'' (1985). In 1999, he released his first novel, ''A Settlement of Memory'', which is loosely based on the life of

William Coaker Sir William Ford Coaker (October 19, 1871 – October 26, 1938) was a Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union, the Fishermen's Union Trading Co., and the town of Port Union. A polarizing figure ...

. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

, and an MSc from

Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...

. He was a

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

, (retired 2016) and was a part-time lecturer with the

Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland is located on the eastern edge of North America and is one of two medical schools in Atlantic Canada. It was founded in 1967 and is the academic core of health research in the province. T ...

Personal

Rodgers lives in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, with his wife Paula, and is working on his second novel. He has two sons, David, a lawyer in St. John’s, NL and Christopher, a computer engineer in St. John’s.

External links

Biography on Creative Book PublishingPersonnel of the Faculty of Medicine with Rodgers listed under Psychiatry

References

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