Stan Dragland was a Canadian writer, educator and critic as well as a founder of the poetry press Brick Books and founding editor of Brick magazine. He published a number of books of fiction, criticism and poetry, including Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9 (Anansi, 1994), which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian literary criticism, and Apocrypha: Further Journeys (NeWest Press, 2003), which won the Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Award for non-fiction. Dragland died suddenly in August, 2022. He lived in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.