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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Bernice Friesen Bernice Friesen trained as a printmaker at the University of Saskatchewan, ending up with a B.F.A. and a B. Ed. by 1990. She took creative writing courses with Elizabeth Brewster, Guy Vanderhaegue and Tim Lilburn, and in 1998 attended the Banff Writing Studio. She has been a waitress, art studio lab assistant, project coordinator at the A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon, odd-bod temp at Lloyds of London, England, singing telelgram girl, art gallery educator, and has taught Sage Hill Writing Experience for teens. She has produced six works of art for the covers of Coteau’s Open Eye poetry series, and her fiction and poetry has been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and Europe. The title story of her first book, The Seasons are Horses (1995), won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Best Young Adult Short Story in Canada. Her book of poetry Sex, Death and Naked Men, came out in 1998 and her first novel, The Book of Beasts, in 2007. It won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction in 2007 and has received rave reviews in Canada and the United States. |
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