Lawrence Hill
LAWRENCE HILL is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph. He is the author of ten books, including The Illegal; The Book Of Negroes; Any Known Blood; and Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. He is the winner of various awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, and is a two-time winner of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the North America-wide 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers and won eleven Canadian Screen Awards. The recipient of nine honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, Hill served as chair of the jury of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is a volunteer with Book Clubs for Inmates and the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, and is an honorary patron of Crossroads International, for which he has volunteered for more than thirty-five years and with which he has travelled to Niger, Cameroon, Mali, and Swaziland. A 2018 Berton House resident in Dawson City, he is working on a new novel about the African-American soldiers who helped build the Alaska Highway in northern B.C. and Yukon in 1942–43. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, and in 2019 was named a Canada Library and Archives Scholar. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and in Woody Point, Newfoundland.







Blood: The Stuff of Life











Luminous Ink
contributions by Nicole Brossard; Madeleine Thien; Lawrence Hill; Nino Ricci; Heather O'Neill; Eden Robinson; Rawi Hage; Lisa Moore; Rita Wong; Hiromi Goto; George Elliott Clarke; Judith Thompson; Michael Helm; David Chariandy; Richard Van Camp; Marie-Hélène Poitras; Stephen Henighan; Greg Hollingshead; Michael Ondaatje; Lee Maracle; Camilla Gibb; Fischman, Sheila; Pascale Quiviger; MG Vassanji; Margaret Atwood & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Luminous Ink
contributions by Nicole Brossard; Madeleine Thien; Lawrence Hill; Nino Ricci; Heather O'Neill; Eden Robinson; Rawi Hage; Lisa Moore; Rita Wong; Hiromi Goto; George Elliott Clarke; Judith Thompson; Michael Helm; David Chariandy; Richard Van Camp; Marie-Hélène Poitras; Stephen Henighan; Greg Hollingshead; Michael Ondaatje; Lee Maracle; Camilla Gibb; Fischman, Sheila; Pascale Quiviger; MG Vassanji; Margaret Atwood & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Ten Canadian Writers in Context
contributions by Joseph Pivato; Ying Chen; Jennifer Bowering Delisle; Caterina Edwards; Marina Endicott; Lawrence Hill; Daniel Laforest; Don Perkins; Julie Rodgers; Eden Robinson; Alice Major; Gregory Scofield; Winfried Siemerling; Pamela Sing; Maïté Snauwaert; Kim Thúy; Kit Dobson; Michael Crummey; Lynn Coady & Angela Van Essen

Ten Canadian Writers in Context
contributions by Joseph Pivato; Ying Chen; Jennifer Bowering Delisle; Caterina Edwards; Marina Endicott; Lawrence Hill; Daniel Laforest; Don Perkins; Julie Rodgers; Eden Robinson; Alice Major; Gregory Scofield; Winfried Siemerling; Pamela Sing; Maïté Snauwaert; Kim Thúy; Kit Dobson; Michael Crummey; Lynn Coady & Angela Van Essen
Deserter's Tale /hc

The Deserter's Tale
