From poetry to fiction, image to text, and print to screen, my work explores the impacts of emigration and technology on culture, the re-creation of myths after migration, and the interstices that result.
I have published three print books and two electronic works of poetry, and am currently completing my first book of fiction. I am chair of the Barrie Arts Council, a writer member of PEN Canada, and a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
I served as web editor, and as a consulting editor, at Coach House Books from 1998–2004. During that time, I helped put our full front list online. From 1990–1998, I ran the micro press fingerprinting inkoperated, producing 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. For a short time in 1995, my brother, Dominic McIver Lopes, and I ran Caju Press.
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.