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Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier's eighth book of poetry, Inventing the Hawk, published by  McClelland & Stewart in 1992, received the Governor General's Award for  Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award for the Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian  Woman, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry.  Everything Arrives at the Light,1995, received her second Pat Lowther  Award, and What the Living Won't Let Go won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry  Award for the best poetry book in B.C. for the year 2000. Her poems have also won first prize in the CBC's Radio Literary Competition.

Currently the Chair of the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria, she has taught creative writing across Canada and has been the guest of international literary festivals world-wide, including in Africa, Italy, England, Malaysia, Chile and France.  Her poems have been translated into several languages. 

In 2001, she published Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, co-edited with Patrick Lane.  A book of poetry, Apocrypha of Light was published by McClelland and Stewart in the spring of 2002 and Bones in Their Wings:Ghazals by Hagios Press in 2003. 

Her essays have been published to acclaim in several anthologies, including Dropped Threads, edited by Carol Shields.  A new book of poetry, The Blue Hour of the Day, was released in the spring of 2007.

Margaret Laurence has called Crozier a poet to be grateful for.  Books  in Canada claimed she is one of the most original poets writing in English, and The Globe and Mail, listing her as the editor's choice, described her poems as breathtakingly down-to-earth and reassuringly lyrical.  In 2004 the University of Regina awarded her an Honourary Doctorate for her contribution to Canadian literature, and the University of Victoria made her a Distinguished Professor.