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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Jeanette Lynes
Her other poetry collections are The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003) and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999). Jeanette is Poet Laureate for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP). In July, 2005, she was writer in residence at Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, B.C., and is Saskatoon Public Library’s 2005-2006 writer in residence. She will co-facilitate, with Robert Currie, the “Introduction To Writing Fiction and Poetry” at the Sage Hill Summer Writing Experience, 2006. Jeanette’s poetry recently appeared in Grain Magazine and The Fiddlehead. She currently lives in Saskatoon. |
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Jeanette
Lynes is the author of three collections of poetry. Her most recent Left
Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003) was short-listed for the Pat Lowther
Memorial Award. Jeanette received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award in
2001, and was a co-winner of The Fiddlehead’s ‘Anniversaries’
Contest in 2006.