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Alice Major is a Canadian poet, writer, and essayist, who served as poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta. [1]

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She has published 12 collections of poetry and a collection of essays on poetry and science. Her work has received multiple awards, most recently an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta. [2]

Biography

Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario before working as a weekly newspaper reporter in central British Columbia. She has lived in Edmonton, Alberta since 1981. She has a BA (English, history) from Trinity College, Toronto at the University of Toronto. [3] Her first book was a prize-winning YA fantasy novel. Since then she has published 12 books of poetry and an essay collection on poetry and science.

She is past-president of both the Writers' Guild of Alberta and the League of Canadian Poets, [4] [5] as well as former chair of the Edmonton Arts Council. [6] In 2005, she was appointed to a two-year term as the first poet laureate for the City of Edmonton, and then went on to receive the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award in 2017. [7] During her tenure as poet laureate, she founded the Edmonton Poetry Festival in 2006. [8] In November 2019 she received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Alberta.

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  1. ↑ "Alice Major Edmonton, Alberta Poet Laureate". Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  2. ↑ Townsend, Sean. "U of A names honorary degree recipients for 2019 fall convocation". University of Alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Alice Major: Biography". Canadian Poetry Online. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "WGA Board of Directors Archive". WGA website. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  5. ↑ ""Alice Major", League of Canadian Poets". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  6. ↑ "Alice Major: Biography". Canadian Poetry Online. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "Alice Major". The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  8. ↑ "Our Story". Edmonton Poetry Festival. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  9. ↑ "Alice Major". The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "BPAA Awards Winners Announced" (PDF). Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  11. ↑ "The Winners of the 35th anniversary National Magazine Awards!". National Magazine Awards. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  12. ↑ Helm, Richard. "Edmonton writers dominate awards". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Mather, Nicholas (24 June 2011). "2011 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Memory's Daughter". Theatre Alberta.
  14. ↑ "Pat Lowther Memorial Award". League of Canadian Poets. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  15. ↑ Stephens, Melissa. "Unconventional Insight: Melissa Stephens in Conversation with Alice Major". The Malahat Review. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "The Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize Past Finalists". Writers' Guild of alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  17. ↑ "Anne Szumigalski Lecture Series". League of Canadian Poets. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  18. ↑ "September 17 Provost's Lecture with Alice Major". Stony Brook University. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  19. ↑ "Bridges Waterloo 2017". The Bridges Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  20. ↑ Igali, Monika. "Alice Major's Convocation Address". University of Alberta. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  21. ↑ "Bridges 2020". The Bridges Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  22. ↑ Don Perkins (2016). Carriere, Marie; Purcell, Jason (eds.). Ten Canadian Writers in Context. University of Alberta Press. pp. 122–138.
  23. ↑ Melnyk, Neil; Neil Querengesser (2017). Melnyk, George; Coates, Donna (eds.). Writing Alberta: Alberta Building on a Literary Identity. University of Calgary Press. pp. 117–134. ISBN   978-1-55238-891-4.
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