Eugene McNamara is a poet, author and teacher, and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

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 in Windsor, Ontario

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. He founded and edited the University of Windsor Review from 1965 to 1987.

McNamara attended Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 in Illinois

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 where he received his Ph.D.

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He taught American literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. He received the City of Windsor Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts in 1998.

He has published in the genres of poetry, short stories and novels. Four of his short stories were selected for inclusion in the annual Best Canadian Stories. One of these stories appeared in Best American Short Stories in 1975.

Among his published works are:

• Screens (1977)
• Spectral Evidence (1986), a set of short stories
• The Moving Light (1986)
• "Laura" as Novel Film and Myth (1992)
• Fox Trot (1994), a set of short stories
• Keeping in Touch: New and Selected Poems (1998)