BARRY CALLAGHAN, the well-known novelist, poet, and man of letters, is included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages.

His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still A Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters. He has published translations of French, Serbian, and Latvian poetry, and has been writer-in-residence at the universities of Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Mexico City.

He was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 70s, and at the same time began the internationally celebrated quarterly and press, Exile. For thirty-five years, he was a professor of contemporary literature at York University in Toronto, and is now Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar at that institution.

Callaghan has been awarded the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters award for fiction, the City of Toronto Award, seven National Magazine Awards, two President’s Medal Awards for Excellence (NMA), the ACTRA Award for television host of the year, the Pushcart, White, and Lowell Thomas Prizes in the U.S., and the inaugural W. O. Mitchell Award for a body of work. Callaghan has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the State University of New York and the University of Guelph.

Praise for Barry Callaghan

“The work of a master at full stretch-extraordinary.” - - Globe and Mail

“Between Trains succeeds the old-fashioned way, the way of Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway - a coupling of skilled technique and earnest thematic intention that will never go out of style for as long as people care about superior literature.” - - Ray Robertson, Books in Canada

“Good and evil resonant with unbearable intensity in this universe.” - - Philip Marchand, Toronto Star

“These stories are pearls–Between Trains, with its implications of waiting, of anxiety, and of expectation, is just what we have been waiting to declare: that this is his best book.” - -Austin Clarke

“As with Hemingway there are depths of emotion rolling beneath the deceptively simple surface of Callaghan’s prose–a master of the short story form working at the top of his game.” - - Quill and Quire