Garry Thomas Morse is aCanadian poet and novelist.^[1] He is a two-time nominee for theGovernor General's Award for English-language poetry, at the2011 Governor General's Awards forDiscovery Passages^[2] and at the2016 Governor General's Awards forPrairie Harbour,^[3] and a two-timeReLit Award nominee for his fiction worksMinor Episodes / Major Ruckus in 2013 andRogue Cells / Carbon Harbour in 2014.^[4]

He is ofKwakwaka'wakw descent, andDiscovery Passages centred on the historical banning of the traditional Kwakwaka'wakwpotlatch and its cultural and social impact on the First Nation.^[5]

He has worked as an editor forTalonbooks and Signature Editions.^[6] Originally fromBritish Columbia,^[7] he is currently based inWinnipeg.^[4]

Morse was selected asSaskatoon Public Library's Writer in Residence for 2023/24.

• Transversals for Orpheus (LINEBooks, 2006)
• Streams (LINEBooks, 2007)
• After Jack (Talonbooks, 2010)
• Discovery Passages (Talonbooks, 2011)
• Prairie Harbour (Talonbooks, 2016)
• Safety Sand (Talonbooks, 2017)
• Scofflaw (Anvil Press, 2021)

• Death in Vancouver (2009)
• Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (2012)
• Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour (2013)
• Minor Expectations (2014)
• Yams Do Not Exist (2020)

• 21st-century Canadian poets
• 21st-century Canadian novelists
• Canadian male poets
• Canadian male novelists
• First Nations poets
• First Nations novelists
• Kwakwaka'wakw people
• Poets from British Columbia
• Living people
• 21st-century Canadian male writers
• 21st-century First Nations writers
• Writers from Winnipeg
• Poets from Manitoba
• Novelists from British Columbia

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• Short description matches Wikidata
• Year of birth missing (living people)