Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at the University of Toronto.[3] She subsequently moved to Western Canada, working for the Winnipeg Free Press and later for the feminist magazine Branching Out before settling in British Columbia.[3]
She published the poetry collection Kissing: Selected Chronicles in 1999, for which she won the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Award.[4] Her 2009 poem "Paradise, Later Years" won a gold medal for The Malahat Review, as well as winning the poetry category in the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2010.[5] It was later the title poem for her second poetry collection, Paradise, Later Years (2018).[6]
She has also published the children's novel The Gift of Odin (2007),[7] and the short story collection Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road (2021).[8]Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022.[9]
Notes
↑ Rod Currie, "Mission woman wins book prize". Vancouver Sun, April 2, 1988.
↑ H. J. Kirchhoff, "Butterfly Chair soars into winner's circle". The Globe and Mail, April 1, 1988.
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