Tammy Armstrong

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Tammy Lynn Armstrong (born March 26, 1974) is a Canadian poet and novelist. [1] She is most noted for her 2002 collection Bogman's Music, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2002 Governor General's Awards. [2]

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Originally from St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Armstrong was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick. [1]

Career

Armstrong has published the poetry collections Unravel (2004), Take Us Quietly (2006) and The Scare in the Crow (2010), [1] [3] [4] and the novels Translations: Aístreann (2002) and Pye-Dogs (2008). [5] [6]

In 2017, Armstrong's Hermit God Spot made the longlist for the CBC Poetry Prize. [7]

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Novel

Short story collections

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tammy Lynn Armstrong" Archived 14 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine . New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Newcomers abound on Governor General's literary list". Telegraph-Journal , October 22, 2002.
  3. ↑ "Fredericton woman writes another book of strong verse". Daily Gleaner , October 28, 2006.
  4. ↑ "Hinterlands". Telegraph-Journal , September 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Poignant tale shows how the past influences the future". Hamilton Spectator , July 13, 2002.
  6. ↑ "Local woman's novel has 'the grit and haunting aftertaste of a bestseller'". Daily Gleaner , February 14, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Hermit God Spot by Tammy Armstrong". CBC Books. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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