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Education & Personal Background
Attended: Oakwood Collegiate Institute, University College, Toronto and Merton College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Husband of Monica Hornyansky (also Brock faculty) and son of Nicholas Hornyansky, artist, and Joyce Sands, cellist.

Teaching
Michael Hornyansky taught English Language and Literature at Carleton University, Ottawa for 10 years, and moved to Niagara in 1964 as the founding chairman of the English Department at Brock University and one of seven initial faculty members. He taught there in the English and Liberal Studies departments until his retirement in 1993. He was known as a generous teacher, passionate lecturer, and for offering direct and encouraging critiques in his Creative Writing classes. His often stated aim was to "convert sheep into goats".

Publications
Newdigate Prize for Poetry in 1951 for The Queen of Sheba

The Golden Phoenix (1958), with Charles Marius Barbeau, a retelling of French Canadian folk tales (winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award)

Published papers on children's literature and the discriminating use of the English language

Reviewed Poetry in Canada for 10 years for the University of Toronto Quarterly