Translation Award for his renditions from the Yiddish. He also received the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award given to an individual who has made significant contributions to Canadian Jewish Studies in one or more fields. Alongside his creative writing career, Mayne has been teaching at the University of Ottawa since 1973 where he is Professor of Canadian Literature, Creative Writing, and Canadian Studies, and also directs the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program whose establishment he oversaw in 2006. He continues to serve as the Vered Program's coordinator and most ardent promoter. He also taught at the University of British Columbia, Concordia University in Montreal, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. Mayne has received numerous awards for his academic work, including The Capital Educator's Award (2003), an initiative of the Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation awarded to educators who have made a difference in the lives of their students by acting as role models, instilling confidence and nurturing leadership; The Excellence in Education Prize (2005), and lastly he was named Professor of the Year in the Faculty of Arts (2010). A longtime resident of Canada's capital, Ottawa, Mayne has helped sustain the city's literary and artistic community over the past three and a half decades. He has given hundreds of lectures and readings at universities and other institutions across Canada, the United States, and abroad. His dedication to learning and writing has also materialized in the promotion of creative writing within the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. He has supervised the publication of a series of more than twenty anthologies drawing on the work of student writers. In his years as an educator, Mayne has acted as a mentor to dozens of aspiring writers. Selected publications Poetry Tiptoeing on the Mount. Montreal: McGill Poetry Series, 1965. Manimals. Vancouver: Very Stone House, 1969. Mouth. Kingston: The Quarry Press, 1970. Name. Erin: Press Porcépic, 1975. The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected. Oakville: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions, 1981. Children of Abel. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1986. Killing Time. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1992. The Song of Moses and Other Poems. Illustrations, Sharon Katz. Ottawa: Concertina; London: The Menard Press, 1995. electronic text Ottawa: InterAccess Technology Corp., 1995. Dragon trees: poems. Ottawa: Friday Circle, 1997. electronic text 2nd edition, Ottawa: Friday Circle, 2003. Carbon Filter: Poems in Dedication. Toronto/Paris/New York: Mosaic