Author Description

Henry Victor (whose roots go to Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India) was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he had his early education. He was ordained an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Colombo in 1974. He then went to India to secure his degrees in Christian Theology and World Religions, moving later to United Kingdom to complete his Ph D. Prior to settling in Edmonton in July 2000, where he has taught Islamics and World Religions for almost ten years now at the University of Alberta, he worked as a research fellow in Pakistan and been a Professor of Comparative Religion in two of the Sri Lankan Universities - University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) and Eastern University (Sri Lanka). Henry Victor s academic writings have appeared in refereed journals in Canada and other parts of the world. Henry Victor s poems have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies in Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, United States and Canada. His collection of poems titled No Tears and Frail Floret were published in Sri Lanka in 1998 and 1999 respectively. Cyberwit.Net (of India) published Henry Victor s poems in The Postmodern Temperament: Fifteen Poets (2003) and The Ferment of Images (2004). Stinging of the Scorpion & Other Poems (2006) and Three Faces & Other Poems (2007) are his most recent collections.