Marty Gervais is a writer and photographer whose book The Rumrunners was a Canadian bestseller. He is the recipient of nearly 16 newspaper awards, the Queen's Jubilee Medal, and in 1998 won the prestigious Toronto's Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and to emerging writers. Gervais was Windsor's first poet laureate. In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day. That book was awarded the City of Windsor Mayor's Award for literature. Gervais won this award again in 2003 for another collection, To Be Now: New and Selected Poems. His first published novel, Reno, appeared in 2005 from Mosaic Press, and was the runner-up in The International Three-Day Novel Writing contest. In 2006 Gervais and his work were the subject of a TV Bravo episode of the television series Heart of A Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.
