Stephen Matthew Gill was born in Sialkot, Panjab. He was educated at Agra University, the University of Ottawa, and Oxford University. He has taught in India, Ethiopia and Canada. Gill has written a number of critical studies on writers as diverse as G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, and Yeats. He has also (co-)edited several anthologies of poems and stories including Poets of the Capital, Seaway Valley Poets, two vols. of Anti-war Poems and Tales from Canada for Children Everywhere. Most of his publications are in English. His works have been published in the USA, UK, India, and Canada. Most of his Canadian publications were published by his own imprint, Vesta Publications, located in Cornwall, Ontario. From his websites, it appears that Gill’s main interests today are global peace, religion, and social concerns.
Fiction (Juvenile)
The Blessings of a Bird
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1983.
Fiction
Immigrant: A Novel
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1978. (reprinted 1979, 1988)
Fiction (Short stories)
Life’s Vagaries: Fourteen Short Stories
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1974.
Fiction (Short stories)
The Loyalist City: A Novel
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1979. (reprinted 1988)
Fiction (Juvenile)
Simon and the Snow King
Illustrated by Bob Eadie.
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1981.
Fiction (Short stories/essays)
Sketches of India
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1980.
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Publisher’s Synopsis
Sketches of India contains stories and articles written in essay form to draw a picture of the political, economical, social and religious life of the people of India as well as to reveal their way of thinking.
Fiction
Why?: A Novel
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1976. (reprinted 1977)
Publisher’s Synopsis (From rear cover)
Why is an entertaining and informative story of an artist who falls in love mostly with married women in spite of his repeated regrets and self-condemnation for this weakness. It is also about boredom, and its action takes place in Montreal, Ottawa, and Ethiopia.
Poetry
Divergent Shades: Poems
[India]: Writers’ Forum, 1995.
Poetry
The Dove of Peace: (Poems)
Portlandville, N.Y.: M.A.F. Press, 1989.
Poetry
Flashes: Trilliums in Haiku Spirit
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1994.
Poetry
The Flowers of Thirst: Love Poems
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1990.
Poetry
Moans and Waves
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1982. (reprinted 1989 with expanded title: Moans and Waves and Other Poems)
Poetry
Reflections: A Collection of Poems
Cornwall, Ont.: Kyte’s, 1972.
Poetry
Reflections & Wounds: Poems
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1978.
Poetry
Shrine: Poems of Social Concern
Benson, Ariz.: World University Press, 1999.
Poetry
Songs for Harmony: Poems
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1992.
Poetry
Wounds: A Collection of Poems
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1974.
Non-fiction
Vesta’s Who’s Who of North American Poets
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1990.
Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Arora, Sudhir K. The Poetic Corpus of Stephen Gill: An Evaluation. New Delhi: Sarup Book Pub., 2009.
Discovering Stephen Gill: A Collection of Papers and Articles. Ed. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. Delhi: Authorspress, 2008.
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Essays on the Poetry of Stephen Gill: Anthology of Critical Papers and Articles. Ed. Shaleen Kumar Singh. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers, 2010.
Gill, Stephen. A Selection of my Interviews. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2010.
Hines, George. Stephen Gill and his Works, up to 1980. 2nd ed., updated bibliography. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2008.
Mannur, Anita. “Stephen Gill.” In Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson, [105]-109. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Stephen Gill’s Poetry: A Panorama of World Peace. Ed. K.V. Dominic. Delhi: Gnosis, 2010.
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