Books published

• The Office Tower Tales, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2008
• The Occupied World, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2006
• Some Bones and a Story, Toronto, Wolsak and Wynn, 2001
• No Monster, Victoria, Poppy Press, 2001
• Corona Radiata, Toronto, St. Thomas Press, 2000
• Tales for an Urban Sky. Fredricton: Broken Jaw Press, 1999.
• Lattice of the Years. Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 1999.
• Complete within herself (chapbook). Victoria: Hawthorne Society, 1997.
• Time Travels Light. Edmonton: Rowan, 1992.
• The Chinese Mirror. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1988. 

Awards 

• Winner, Pat Lowther Award, for The Office Tower Tales, 2009
• Winner, Alberta Book Publishers Association Trade Book of the Year (fiction) for The Office Tower Tales, 2009
• Winner, “Poetics of Space” competition, 2004 (Sponsored by CV2)
• Shortlisted, Pat Lowther Award, for Some Bones and a Story, 2002 (National award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman)
• Winner, Malahat Review Long Poem Competition, 2001
• Winner, Poets Corner Award, for Tales for an Urban Sky, 1999.
• Shortlisted, City of Edmonton Book Prize, for Lattice of the Years, 1999, Tales for an Urban Sky, 2000 and The Office Tower Tales, 2009
• Shortlisted, Stephan G. Stephanson Award, Writers Guild of Alberta, for Tales for an Urban Sky, 2000; and The Occupied World, 2007.
• Winner, Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Competition, for Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Café, 1998
• Winner, Alberta Writing for Youth Competition, for The Chinese Mirror, 1988.  
• Finalist, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, for The Chinese Mirror, 1988

Other publishing credits 

Periodicals

Poems have appeared in the following periodicals:

Amethyst Review; Antigonish Review; Arc; CV2; Dandelion; Descant; Event; The Fiddlehead; Grain; Hysteria (U.S.);  Literary Review of Canada, Malahat Review; The New Quarterly; NewWest Review; Northward Journal; On Spec; Orbis (U.K.); Other Voices; People’s Poetry Letter; Poetry Canada Review; Pottersfield Portfolio; The Prairie Journal; Prism; Quarry; Queen’s Quarterly; Room of One’s Own; Secrets from the Orange Couch; Stand Magazine (U.K.); Wascana Review; Waves; Whetstone 

Anthologies

• Poetry Alive: Perspectives (Copp Clark Pitman, 1991)
• On Spec: The first five years (Tesseract Books, 1995) – Best of the magazine’s first five years
• Vintage ‘92: Prize-winning Poems from the League of Canadian Poets
• Vintage ‘95: Prize-winning Poems from the League of Canadian Poets
• Vintage 97: Prize-winning Poems from the League of Canadian Poets
• Going it alone: Plays by women for solo performance (Winnipeg, Nuage Editions)
• What if ….? Amazing stories selected by Monica Hughes (Toronto, Tundra Books, 1998)
• The Edges of Time: A celebration of Canadian Poetry (Toronto, Seraphim Editions, 1999)
• Threshold: An Anthology of contemporary Writing from Alberta (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2000)
• Echoes 12 (Toronto, Oxford University Press Canada, 2002)
• Poetry and Spiritual Practice: Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets (Toronto, St. Thomas Press, 2002)
• Poetry as Liturgy (Toronto, St. Thomas Press, 2007)
• Where the light gets in: Anthology of Poetry from Canada (School of Humanities, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2009)

Articles/Essays

• “Poetry under the influence of time” – published in CV2, Volume 25, Issue 1.
• “Only tenderness” – in Feminism and the language of love, 1999, published by the League of Canadian Poets (Living Archives series)
• “Politics as Phase Space” – published in fifty3, Winter 2004 (Published by the Latitude 53 Society of Artists)

Selected Performances/Broadcasts:

• CBC – “Alberta Anthology”  (1989, 1991, 1992, 1995)
• Womenstrength Festival – Edmonton (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992)
• “Starwords” – Edmonton Space and Sciences Centre – 1990
• “Writing on the Wall”  – Women’s Television Network  (Spring, 1995)
• Time Capsule project (for Edmonton’s Symphony Hall) – August, 1995
• Gala Performance, Global Arts & Culture symposium (Directed by Veronica Tennant) – September, 1999
• “Exploring Language” – CD prepared for Alberta Learning (English Language Arts curriculum, Grades 5-12) – 2003 – ISBN 0-7785-2575-9

Readings

Selected readings include:

• “String Quartet with A. Major, Poet” (Part of the “Made in Canada” music festival) – November, 1992
• Edmonton First Night Festival – December, 1992
• Stroll of Poets Society, Twelfth Night of Poetry (selected by audiences) – January, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000
• Muttart Gallery  (Calgary) -  February, 1993
• Prairie Festival of Books (Regina) – May, 1993
• The (Almost) Mother’s Day Cabaret (Edmonton) – May, 1993
• Studio Cafe (Calgary) – October, 1993
• Fellowship of Australian Writers (Sydney) – December, 1993
• Writers Centre of New South Wales (address to the annual general meeting) – February, 1995.
• The Poets Union (Sydney) – March, 1995.
• Poetry Night in Canada (Edmonton) – June, 1995
• Alberta Book Fair – August, 1996
• University of Leeds – November 1996
• Hawthorne Society Reading Series (Victoria), October 1997
• Alberta Book Fair (Edmonton), October, 1997
• McMaster University (Hamilton) – May, 1998
• Mocambo Reading Series (Victoria) – September 1998
• Word on the Street Book Fair (Calgary) – September 1999, 2000 and 2001
• Art Bar Reading Series (Toronto) – November, 1999, April 2001, November 2003
• The Idler Pub (Toronto) – November, 2001
• Varuna Writers Centre (Katoomba, New South Wales) – March, 2002
• New South Wales Writers Centre Autumn Festival – March, 2002
• CBC Poetry Face-off (Edmonton finals) – March, 2004
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference – June, 2004
• Poet Laureate readings (June, 2005-7) – more than four dozen appearances in schools, libraries and public venues, including: City Hall performance for the Governor General’s visit; Mayor’s Evening for the Arts (Winspear Centre); address to Edmonton Arts Council AGM; Chamber of Commerce annual luncheon.
• Poetry in the Crypt series, (London, U.K, with Mimi Khalvati.) – June, 2008

Current Memberships:

• The Writers Union of Canada
• The League of Canadian Poets
• Writers Guild of Alberta
• Edmonton Arts Council

Volunteer Contributions

League of Canadian Poets

(The League’s mission statement is: To develop the art of poetry; to enhance the status of poets and nurture a diverse professional poetic community; to facilitate the teaching of Canadian poetry at all levels of education; to enlarge the audience for poetry by encouraging publication, performance and recognition of Canadian poetry nationally and internationally.)

• Alberta representative, 1997-99
• Vice-president & membership chair, 1999-2000
• President, 2000-02
• Past president (2002-present)
• Chair, resource development committee (2001-present)

Writers Guild of Alberta

• Retreats committee, 1992
• Vice-president, 1993-94
• President, 1994-95

Take the Poetry Route (Edmonton’s Transit Poetry Project)

• Steering committee chair (1999-present)

Edmonton Arts Council 

City of Edmonton 

Member, peer review jury to award municipal grants-in-aid, 1995-6

Member, Honour Awards Selection committee (arts & culture subcommittee) – 2002-present

The Books Collective

• Founding member of Edmonton publishing collective 1991-96

Benefit readings

• “Harp & Words” performances with Nora Bumanis, principle harpist, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, for various local causes

Teaching credits

Numerous sessions for schools and young writers’ conferences in Alberta on writing poetry and fantasy Young Writers’ Conferences, including:

• 3-2-1 Write (Edmonton Public School Board) – 1989 and 1990
• Write-on (St. Albert Catholic School Board) – 1992 and 1993
• All Write (St. Albert Protestant School Board) – 1993, 1994 and 1995
• Leadworks (Edmonton Public Schools) – 1995
• MADD Day (Virginia Park School) – 2004 and 2005.
• Creative-writing seminars for adults in Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Drayton Valley and other Alberta communities
• Writer-in-residence, Writers Guild of Alberta retreats program, 1992
• Creative writing instructor, Lakeland College Summer Program, 1993 and 1994
• Poetry instructor, Edmonton Public School Board extension program, 1995, 1996, 1997
• Workshops, Grant McEwen Community College, 1996
• Writer-in-residence, Grant McEwen Community College, 1998

Education

• BA. (English, history) – Trinity College, University of Toronto

Other

• Juror, Alberta Foundation for the Arts writers awards, 1998
• Juror, Saskatchewan Book of the Year, 2002
• Jury chair, Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award (sponsored by the Writers Trust of Canada), 2004
• Canada Council for the Arts – Senior Writer’s Grant, 2007