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About Gary Hyland Biographical Note Gary Hyland is a Saskatchewan teacher, writer, activist, consultant and editor. In 1993, he was short-listed for the National Magazine Gold Medal Poetry Award, and he has won numerous prizes in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild annual competitions, including major poetry manuscript awards in 1991 and 1995 and the John V. Hicks Memorial Award in 2003. He has published two chapbooks and five full-length books of poetry-- Just Off Main (Thistledown, 1982), Street of Dreams (Coteau Books, 1984), After Atlantis (Thistledown, 1991), White Crane Spreads Wings (Coteau Books, 1996), The Work of Snow (Thistledown, 2003), and Hands Reaching in Water (Hagios, 2007). He has co-edited the humour anthologies 100% Cracked Wheat, and 200% Cracked Wheat and the poetry collections Number One Northern and A Sudden Radiance. His work has appeared in such anthologies as The New Canadian Poets (Dennis Lee, ed., 1985), Literature of the Americas (University of Hawaii, 1997), Vintage 93, Vintage 95 and Vintage 2000 (League of Canadian Poets competition finalists), The Power of Poetry (Universal Publishing, Australia, 1997) and Oval Victories: The Best Canadian Poetry (2002) as well as CBC radio, and journals such as Prism International, Grain, Capilano Review, CVII, Prairie Fire, New Quarterly, Canadian Forum, and Canadian Literature. He has made two appearances on CBC radio’s Basic Black. Known as an activist and builder, Hyland was a founding member of CJUS-FM radio (Saskatoon), Thunder Creek Co-op/Coteau Books, the Moose Jaw Community Hockey School, Moose Jaw Kinsmen Rink Action Committee, Sage Hill Writing Experience, ArtSchool Saskatchewan, CineView Saskatchewan, LiveMusicCity, Great Plains School of the Arts, the Saskatchewan Festival of Words (Artistic Coordinator), Moose Jaw Arts in Motion (Executive Director) and Wide Skies Film Festival (Executive Director). He continues to serve on the boards of most of these and also the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Builders (Chairperson) and the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Board of Directors. All positions are voluntary. He is a former director of Saskatchewan Film and Video Development Corporation, the City of Moose Jaw Ad Hoc Committee for a Cultural Centre, and the Moose Jaw Centennial Committee. He has been a high school English teacher and a creative writing instructor for Palliser Campus (SIAST), the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and the Prairie Winds Writers’ Conference at Custer, South Dakota. He also worked as a sessional lecturer in English for the University of Regina. He was the recipient of a Hilroy Fellowship for innovative teaching practices, the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teacher Award for quality teaching and contributions to the profession, the Joe Duffy Memorial Award for excellence in teaching English. He has received volunteer awards from SaskCulture, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, and Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association; and the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal from the Province of Saskatchewan. He resides in his birthplace of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where he was named lifetime Poet Laureate (with Robert Currie) in 1991 and Citizen of the Year in 1998 and 2006. In 2007 he was named one of the 100 most influential graduates of the University of Saskatchewan in the last one hundred years. For the last while he has had Amyotrophic Lateral Sceloris (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). He continues with a reduced volunteer load, his writing and combating the disease.
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