Education
Born in Ottawa, Alan Cumyn studied at Royal Roads Military College in 1983, and Queen"s University before earning an Master of Arts
Born in Ottawa, Alan Cumyn studied at Royal Roads Military College in 1983, and Queen"s University before earning an Master of Arts
In Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor. He has lived across Canada and in China and Indonesia, and worked variously as a geologist"s assistant, group home manager, tai chi instructor, English teacher, program officer in international development, human rights researcher and freelance writer Cumyn"s fiction focuses on personal and political relations, often in a cross-cultural context.