Some fragments of autobiographical writing appear in Grandchild of Empire [see Criticism and History], in remarks on accepting the CUFA award [see http://www.cufa.bc.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=32], and in the following ESSAYS:

• “Rearticulating West.”  Westerly, 35.3 (September 1990), 9-16.
• “Glimpses:  Shadow, Pool.”  In The Inward Sun:  Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame,ed. Elizabeth Alley.  Wellington: Daphne Brasell, 1994:  39-42.
• “The Rowboat, the Wheel, and the Galloping Oilcan.”  Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 12 (Dec. 1994 [1997]): 64-72.
• “On Writing Raucous.”  Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies.  1.2 (July 2001): 123-30.
• “Folding into Place.”  Australian Canadian Studies 18.1-2 (2000): 195-200.
• “Writing Here.”  B.C. Studies.  147 (Autumn 2005): 3-27.