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I currently live in Athabasca, Alberta, about 150 kms north of Edmonton, having moved here in the fall of 2004 from New Brunswick where I was born and where I’d like to return some day. Presently, I split my time between my job as a Indivudualized Study Tutor (ie. course instructor) with Athabasca University, as a stay-at-home dad, and as a writer. In the fall of 2006, Defining Range, a chapbook of poems, was published by Gaspereau Press. And in the fall of 2008, Thistledown Press published Terminal Moraine, my first full-length poetry collection. In the summer of 2008, I joined the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of Alberta as a Member at Large.

I have an MA from the University of New Brunswick. I wrote my thesis on the poetry of Don McKay. I have participated in the Maritime Writers’ Workshop and in 2005 I participated in the Banff Centre’s Writing Studio, where I worked with several different writers for 5 weeks.

I live in Athabasca with my wife, Sherry Coffey. She’s a writer, too, and most recently, she received the 2005 David Adams Richards Prize from the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick for best novel manuscript excerpt. We live with Milo, our fiesty cat, and Wyatt, our first child, born on September 28, 2006.

Ian LeTourneau / Sherry Coffey
4903–45th Street
Athabasca, Alberta
T9S 1P9