# R. M. Vaughan

Richard Murray Vaughan (March 2, 1965 – October 2020) was a Canadian writer and artist.

## Biography

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Vaughan graduated from the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick. He was playwright-in-residence at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times from 1994-95, and published numerous works, including poetry, fiction, stage plays and journalism for Utne Reader, Xtra! and The Globe and Mail. He was openly gay.
His books included the poetry collections a selection of dazzling scarves (1996), Ruined Stars (2004), and Troubled: A Memoir in Poems (2008), the plays Camera, Woman (2001) and The Monster Trilogy (2003), and the novels A Quilted Heart (1998) and Spells (2003). His 2015 book Bright Eyed is a memoir of his struggles with insomnia.
In October 2020, he was reported missing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was working as writer in residence at the University of New Brunswick. Vaughan was found dead by Fredericton Police on October 23, 2020.
Pervatory, an unfinished novel manuscript, was published in 2023.

## Works

* The InCorrupt Tables (Wild East/Salamanca Chapbooks, 1992 (reprinted 1995), poetry)
* William Forrestali's (Muted) Cornucopia (Studio 21 Halifax, 1992, art catalogue)
* Beyond Bad Times (Snowapple Press, 1993, anthology)
* Expressions: Writing About Psychiatric Survival (Expressions Press, 1993, anthology)
* Shout and Speak Out Loud: Atlantic Canadians on Child Sexual Abuse (Wild East, 1993, anthology)
* Semiotext(e) CANADAS (Semiotext(e) Publications, 1994, anthology)
* Plush (Coach House Press, 1995, anthology)
* Symbiosis: The Clinic (Symbiosis Collective, 1995, art catalogue)
* The Last Word (Insomniac Press, 1995, anthology)
* a selection of dazzling scarves (ECW Press, 1996, poetry)
* DISCovering Authors: Canadian Series (Gale Research, 1996, CD Rom)
* Carnival: A Scream In High Park Reader (Insomniac Press, 1996, anthology)
* Painted, Tainted, Sainted by Sky Gilbert (PUC Press, 1996, introduction)
* Blues and True Concussions: 6 New Poets (House of Anansi, 1996, anthology)
* To Monsieur Desmoulins... (Tortoise Shell and Black, 1997, poetry chapbook)
* Gay Love Poetry (Robinson Publishing U.K. 1997, anthology)
* The Ecstatic Moment: The Best of Libido (Dell Books, 1997, anthology)
* 96 Tears (in my jeans) (Broken Jaw Press, 1998, poetry chapbook)
* A Quilted Heart (Insomniac Press, 1998, novel)
* Contra/Dictions: Queer Male Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998, anthology).
* Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998, anthology)
* Rhubarb-O-Rama! (Blizzard Press, 1998, anthology of plays)
* Restless Requiem: Catherine Hale's Seductive Altars (Art Centre, University of New Brunswick Press, 1998, art catalogue)
* Invisible to Predators (ECW Press, 1999, poetry)
* Camera, Woman (2001, drama)
* Spells (2003, novel)
* The Monster Trilogy (2003, drama)
* Ruined Stars (2004, poetry)
* Troubled: A Memoir in Poems (2008, poetry)
* Compared to Hitler (Tightrope Books, 2013, selected essays)
* Bright Eyed (Coach House Press, 2015, memoir)
* Vaughan, R. M. (2018). One year after. New Brunswick chapbook series #6. Victoria, BC: Frog Hollow Press. ISBN 978-1-926948-62-1.
* Vaughan, R. M. (2019). Ve1xe. New Brunswick Chapbook Series #11. Victoria, BC: Frog Hollow Press. ISBN 9781926948843.
* Pervatory (Coach House Press, 2023, novel, published posthumously)