Currently, I am completing a final rewrite of my first work of fiction, The Mango Stone. I am also developing my next book of fiction, Masala-Fried Sunfish, stories about South Asian immigrants in Ontario’s cottage country. Also in progress, The Bhārata is a contemporary poetic interpretation of the central epic in the great Sanskrit poem The Mahābhārata.

My most recent print book, clay lamps & fighter kites, strives to ‘translate’ intimate South Asian and East African imagery into Canadian poetics. My second book, sensory deprivation / dream poetics, consists of two visual essays, and was the recipient of an Alcuin Award for Book Design – I designed and set all three of my print books. towards the quiet is a personal journey through cultural identity, influence and history, and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first poetry book in Canada.

Project X 1497-1999, a poetry-multimedia website, was featured at two Desh Pardesh Conferences (Toronto, 1998 & 2000), and at the ‘Public Displays of Asianness’ conference at NYU (New York, 1998). The electronic version of sensory deprivation / dream poetics evolved to supersede the print version. Both these works explore and manipulate the process of reading/navigating the information age.

In 1990, I founded the micro press fingerprinting inkoperated. From rubberstamps to desktop publishing, I produced chapbooks, leaflets and broadsides by authors such as Nelson Ball, Daniel f Bradley, Christian Bök, jwcurry, MAC Farrant, Gerry Gilbert, bpNichol, David UU, Darren Wershler-Henry, and Alana Wilcox. In 1995, my brother, Dominic McIver Lopes, and I began Caju Press with the aim of publishing South Asian folk literature for western audiences. Only one title was brought to press: A Handful of Grams: Goan Proverbs.

Born in Aberdeen Scotland and raised in Toronto Canada, I trace my family over much of the globe, including the UK, New Zealand, Tanzania, India and Portugal. I graduated as a music major from the Etobicoke School of the Arts, and English major from McGill University.. Having cottaged in Simcoe county throughout my childhood, I now live in Barrie Ontario with my wife and son, and cottage farther north.