Derk Wynand was born in Bad Suderode, Germany in 1944 and has lived in Canada since 1952.
The author of several works of poetry, fiction and translation, and a former editor of The Malahat Review. He taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Victoria from 1969 to 2004, serving six years as Chair of the Dept. of Writing.
Brick Books published Wynand's Closer to Home in 1997. He has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and He lives in Victoria with his wife Eva.
Cover art: 'Anemones' by Eva Wynand, 1995
Derk Wynand reads When We Grew Up from Closer to Home on Audioboo
The Virtues of Daydreaming (The New Yorker)