Patrick Warner is an Irish-Canadian author residing in St. John's, Newfoundland. [1] [2] He writes both novels and poetry. Warner has won several awards for his works, including the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award, [3] [4] the Newfoundland Book Award, [5] [6] [7] the Percy Janes First Novel Award, [8] and the Independent Publisher Regional Fiction Award. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Warner emigrated from County Mayo, Ireland to Newfoundland in 1980. [13] He attended the Memorial University of Newfoundland for his undergraduate degree, earning a Bachelor's in English and Anthropology. He received a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Western Ontario. [2] He works at the Queen Elizabeth II Library at the Memorial University of Newfoundland as a special collections librarian. [14]