Amabile, George, 1936-

George Amabile was born on May 29, 1936, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

He is a Canadian poet who moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1963. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals, and periodicals, including Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry (Chicago), Sur (Buenos Aires), Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature, and Margin (England). He has published seven books. The “Presence of Fire” (1982) won the Canadian Authors' Association Silver Medal for Poetry; his long poem, “Durée,” placed third in the CBC Literary Competition for 1991; “Popular Crime” won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest in February 2000, and he was the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire. He worked as Professor of English, 1971-1997 and Senior Scholar, 1998-, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and an editor of the Northern Light magazine. From October 2000 to April 2001, he was a Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library.