2010 RM Vaughan
RM Vaughan is a Toronto-based writer and video artist originally from New Brunswick. He holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing/English from the University of New Brunswick. Since moving to Toronto in the early 1990s, Vaughan has published 8 books: four poetry collections - A Selection of Dazzling Scarves, Invisible to Predators, Ruined Stars and Troubled; two novels - A Quilted Heart and Spells; and two plays - Camera Woman and The Monster Trilogy. Vaughan has additionally contributed poems, essays, stories and plays to over 50 anthologies. His plays have been performed across Canada and in the US and his short video works have played in galleries and festivals around the world.
Vaughan writes about art and culture for numerous publications, and is a four-time National Magazine Award winner. Vaughan has participated in hundreds of community-based initiatives, from performance events to prize juries to film screenings to charity fundraisers, as a performer, a lecturer, and a curator, and is currently curating a major exhibition of early Canadian video art for V-Tape.