Dr Darryl Whetter is the inaugural director of the first taught Creative Writing master’s degree in Singapore and Southeast Asia (at LASALLE College of the Arts). He is the author of four books of fiction and two poetry collections. His other novels include the bicycle odyssey The Push & the Pull and the multi-generational smuggling epic Keeping Things Whole. In his native Canada, he regularly reviewed books on national CBC Radio, and nearly 100 of his reviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, The National Post, Detroit’s Metro Times, etc. His essays on contemporary literature and Creative Writing pedagogy have been published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, the National Poetry Foundation (USA), Les Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, etc. He can be reached at www.darrylwhetter.ca.
