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]
Originally from St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Armstrong was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick. [1]
Armstrong has published the poetry collections Unravel (2004), [1] Take Us Quietly (2006) [3] and The Scare in the Crow (2010), [4] and the novels Translations: Aístreann (2002) [5] and Pye-Dogs (2008). [6]
In 2017, Armstrong's Hermit God Spot made the longlist for the CBC Poetry Prize. [7]
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