Victor Enns was born in Winnipeg in 1955 and raised in southern Manitoba.He expanded his practice  to feature prerecorded work for presentation as an accommodation for his depression, occasionally weeping through readings making everyone, including himself, uncomfortable. With the arrival of Covid he added video-casts and short films as a way to disseminate his work. He and his frequent collaborator Murray Toews are preparing  Lookshow, a multi-disciplinary art installation heavy on graphic images and video screening to open in the OUTPUT,  Video Pool next October.

Enns graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1979 with a History/English major including the advanced creative writing workshop with Robert Kroetsch which led to the publication of his first poetry collection, Jimmy Bang Poems (Turnstone 1979). A founding Board member of the Manitoba Writer’s Guild, he was the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild from 1982 – 1988 and founder of Windscript magazine featuring the literary and visual art of Saskatchewan high school students. Correct in this Culture (5th House) was published in 1985. He spent the next 20 years in arts administration and raising a family taking time out to found Rhubarb magazine, a literary and visual arts magazine for writers and artists of Mennonite descent in 1998, returning as executive editor in 2012. His most recent collection, Afghanistan Confessions was published by Hagios Press in Regina in 2014, following boy in 2012. Lucky Man, (Hagios, 2005) was nominated for the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award.
OTHER MEMBERSHIPS: League of Canadian poets