Road Trips

Trevor Carolan was hired as a backpacking reporter for The Columbian newspaper in New Westminster while in high-school in 1968. His work includes many books of non-fiction, poetry, and anthologies, and he has travelled to more than fifty countries. He has held a number of senior arts appointments during his career, and was elected Municipal Councillor in North Vancouver following campaigns on behalf of Indigenous land claims and watershed conservation issues. He earned a Ph.D. in International Relations from Bond University, Queensland (2006), for studies in Literature, Ecology and Ideas of the Sacred in the Global Age. His documentary film Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World features many distinguished writers and is based on his co-edited Eco-Lit collection of the same title which received a Best American Essays Citation in 2013. His books include Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg At Hollyhock; Return to Stillness: Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master; The Literary Storefront; In Formless Circumstance, Poems; and New World Dharma: Encounters with Buddhist Teachers, Writers and Leaders. The longtime International Editor of Pacific Rim Review of Books, Carolan reads internationally, frequently with musicians, and is Professor Emeritus with the School of Land Use and Environmental Change at University of the Fraser Valley. See www.trevorcarolan.com