Birk Sproxton

Who was Birk Sproxton?

Birk Sproxton was a Canadian poet and novelist who lived in Red Deer, Alberta.

Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Sproxton studied in Winnipeg before moving west to Alberta. He taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over three decades, while working on his own projects. One of his later works, Phantom Lake, North of 54, won both the Margaret McWilliams Local History Award as well as Grant MacEwan Alberta Author Award. He was also an editor, having completed The Winnipeg Connection: Writing Lives at Mid-Century in the year before his death.