Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Brad Cran
Brad Cran is a poet, essayist and photographer. He has been a longtime contributing editor at Geist magazine and is the current poet laureate of Vancouver. Since establishing Smoking Lung Press in 1996, Cran has brought dozens of British Columbian poets into print for the first time. His first book of poetry The Good Life (Nightwood Editions ) was published in 2001 and his first book of non-fiction, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with Gillian Jerome , won the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Prize and has raised over $40,000 for the people of the DTES.
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