Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay South, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (MUN), visual artist, editor, writer, and poet. His work includes poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore, and children’s literature. He is also one of the founding members of Breakwater Books and TickleAce magazine.

The winner of many awards and honours in arts and letters, he was recently awarded an honourary membership into the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. His work has been studied in schools and colleges around the world. Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe, a book by Martina Seifert, was published in Germany and in Cambridge, MA, in 2002.



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