Photo: Lani Russwurm

Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Performance Bond, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and 49th Parallel Psalm. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. (See HAMP's blog here.) He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Wayde Compton teaches English composition and literature at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Coquitlam College. He is the 2011 Vancouver Public Library Writer-in-Residence.

Recent links of interest:

Keynote address at a recent BC Nurses' Union Conference

Lecture on Hogan's Alley at the Vancouver Media Co-op

New York Times reference to After Canaan

Quill and Quire review of After Canaan

CBC News story on Hogan's Alley

Vancouver Courier article on Hogan's Alley

Ubyssey article on Hogan's Alley

Reading at the University of California, Berkeley