Gordon Rodgers



Gordon Rodgers (born 1952 in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian writer.

Life
Rodgers obtained an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and an M.Sc. from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rodgers lives with his family in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador and is working on his second novel.

He is a clinical psychologist, and is a part-time lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Writing
Rodgers is the author of two books of poetry: Floating Houses (1984), and The Pyrate Latitudes (1986), as well as a novella entitled The Phoenix (1985). In 1999, he released his first novel, A Settlement of Memory, which is loosely based on the life of William Coaker.

Poetry

 * Floating Houses: Poems. St. John's, NL: Creative Publishers, 1984.
 * The Pyrate Latitudes: Poems. St. John's, NL: Creative Publishers, 1986.

Novels

 * The Phoenix: A novella. St. John's, NL: Creative Publishers, 1985.
 * A Settlement of Memory. St. John's, NL: Killick Press, 1999.