Featuring

ROB WINGER and NAOISE HEFFERON

ROB WINGER

Rob Winger grew up country in small-town Ontario before graduating to post-punk and new wave.

His first book, Muybridge’s Horse, was named a Globe and Mail Best Book for 2007, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, Ottawa Book Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry.

An active editor and teacher, Rob recently completed a PhD in literature and cultural studies in Ottawa.

He and his family live in the folk-rock hills northeast of Toronto.

His second collection of poetry is The Chimney Stone (2010).

For more information about Rob Winger please visit his author page at Nightwood:
http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/author/RobWinger

NAOISE HEFFERON

Naoise Hefferon is a Toronto-based writer and performance poet. In her literary process, she holds words by the scruff of the neck and up to the light, that they might work harder and mean more, occasionally finding beauty in the undoing of language and the gross accident of being. Once described as “the coolest effing thing I’ve ever heard in my life”, her interpretation of sound poetry (Vocal Sampling) attempts the execution of a melodic sort of thrashing about, gauzy and indelible.

Naoise’s work has appeared in Canadian literary journals and on local stages.
She is honoured to be featuring at Hot Sauced.

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