Kenneth McRobbie was born in England in 1929. In 1962 he entered the History Department at the University of Manitoba where he remained for 28 years. In 1967, he founded Mosaic, a interdisciplinary journal of literary critcism. McRobbie`s collections include Jupiter C (Toronto:Contact), Eyes Without a Face (Toronto: Gallery Editions), What Is On Fire Is Happening (Winnipeg: The Four Humours Press), and First Ghost To Canada (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press). He teaches part time at the University of British Columbia.