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Patricia Young (born 1954 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer. [1]
She is married to writer Terence Young. [2] Their daughter Clea Young is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016. [3]
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors.
Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
Robert Hilles is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Patricia Kathleen Page, was best known as a Canadian poet, though the citation as she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada reads "poet, novelist, script writer, playwright, essayist, journalist, librettist, teacher and artist." She was the author of more than thirty published books that include poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.
Steven Heighton was a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is the author of eighteen books, including three short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections. His last work was Selected Poems 1983-2020 and an album, The Devil's Share.
Robert Majzels is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
Karen Solie is a Canadian poet.
Mark Anthony Jarman is a Canadian fiction writer. Jarman's work includes the novel Salvage King, Ya!, the short story collection Knife Party at the Hotel Europa and the travel book Ireland's Eye.
Millicent Travis Lane is an American-born Canadian poet based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Suzanne Buffam is a Canadian poet, author of three collections of poetry, and associate professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago. Her third, A Pillow Book, was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of poetry in 2016. Her first, Past Imperfect, won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2006. Her second, The Irrationalist, was shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The New York Times, Poetry, Jubilat, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Books in Canada, and Prairie Schooner; and in anthologies including Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets. She earned an MA in English from Concordia University in Montreal, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, B.C., she lives in Chicago. Buffam was a judge for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Douglas Burnet Smith is a Canadian poet. He is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry. His Voices from a Farther Room was nominated for the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in Canada. In addition to winning numerous poetry awards, in 1989 Mr. Smith won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. He has also represented Canada at international writers’ festivals and has served as the President of the League of Canadian Poets and as Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. His poetry has also been published in numerous literary periodicals and anthologies. He was twice a member of the Poetry Jury for the Canada Council for the Arts' Governor General's Literary Awards, in 1988 and again in 2011.
Beth Goobie is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Barbara Kathleen Nickel is a Canadian poet.
John Barton is a Canadian poet.
Adam Sol is a Canadian-American poet.
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The Malahat Review is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian literature. Iain Higgins is the current editor.
Michael Lista is a Canadian poet. He is the author of Bloom, a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. He writes a monthly column on poetry for The National Post and lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.
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