P&gtGeorge McWhirter is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His translation of selected poems by Jose Emilio Pacheco won him the F.R. Scott Prize for translation. Mr. McWhirter's collection, I&gtCatalan Poems/I&gt, shared the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his novel, I&gtCage/I&gt, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1987./P&gt