Victor Coleman

Victor Coleman was born in Toronto in 1944. He has published a dozen books of poetry and has written art criticism for artscanada, Vanguard, C Magazine, Open Letter and other magazines. He was founding editor of the Coach House Press and an active editor between 1966 and 1975 and also resurrected the publisher in 1996 as Coach House Books, the world's first publisher, simultaneously, of full-text online books of poetry and fiction and print versions. Victor was the Artistic Director of Canada's premiere artist-run center, A Space, from 1975 thru 1978 and a publicist and programmer for The Music Gallery from 1983 thru 1988. He was also a founder of The Toronto Small Press Group and is currently working on the OneZeroZero project, a virtual library of one hundred years of small press publishing in English Canada (1945-2044). Victor currently lives and works in Toronto.