Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton is the author of two books of poetry, 49th Parallel Psalm (1999), which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize, and Performance Bond (2004). In 2001, he edited Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, the first comprehensive anthology of writers of African descent in this province.
His latest book, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (2010), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and its electronic version was chosen as an iTunes Book of the Week in 2012.
He and Jason de Couto perform electronic sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to researching and documenting Vancouver's historical black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books.
Compton is currently working on a collection of short stories.
