Member Review
I joined the Writers' Union because it is a 'Union.' That is, it is an organization that responds to its membership and provides a forum for us to express and debate common concerns. It has been important to me, for example, to collectively consider issues such as the appropriation of voice, the representation of writers of colour, and the protection of the creative community.
Member Profile
Erno Delano Rossi
Erno Delano Rossi was born in a shack by the railroad track where he listened to the trains roll by. Some would try to huff him, some would try to snuff him, and some would try to spit in his eye. He was born in Port Colborne, Ontario--the maritimes of Niagara--in time to watch the mass migration of homeless people on boxcars during the 1930s. He was also born in time to cringe in terror for six years at the slaughter of World War II. He was educated on the chlorine gas and blast furnace of INCO to pay for his B.A., which he earned at McMaster University. He has also obtained an M.A. at Michigan State. At his own expense--while history department head at Port Colborne High School--Rossi has travelled the world. A bestselling author and poet, he appears in the Who's Who of American Poets and Writers.
