Harold Barratt is a former Professor of English and Chairman of Languages and Letters at the University College of Cape Breton. He has published one book and numerous essays in books and journals in several countries. He has also published fiction, has completed an unpublished novel and is working on a second. Barratt grew up in Trinidad, and studied and taught at Ontario universities before coming to Cape Breton. He has returned to family in southern Ontario where he now lives, teaches and writes.
Harold Barratt is a former professor of English and chairman of Languages and Letters at University College of Cape Breton. He has taught at four Canadian universities, and is the author of AUGUST PRELUDE: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS, the editor of THE MAN WHO LOVED ATTENDING FUNERALS AND OTHER STORIES, as well as short fiction, and several essays and chapters in many national and international journals and books. Harold Barratt's novel WHERE TREES CAST SHADOWS will be published in 2017. He lives in Windsor, ON, Canada with his wife Deanna (Derouin) Barratt.