John Baglow
Owner of firstwrite; public and social policy professional; poet.
Dr. Baglow was born in England longer ago than he would prefer. He received his Ph.D in 1973, and his study of MacDiarmid was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 1988. He has had his poetry published in a number of magazines, and two collections, Emergency Measures, by Sono Nis Press in 1976, and Journey Under Glass by Penumbra Press in 2004.
He was a grants officer at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, but left in 1994 when he was elected an Executive Vice-President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, moving on in 2003. He is the owner of a consulting firm, firstwrite, and works in the areas of social and public policy. He lives in Ottawa with his stepson and their wonder dog, Faro.
His current interests are anthropology (he is currently finishing his MA on the formation of Nunavut), cookery, and writing of all kinds, including blogging: the order of preference differs from day to day.
