Arleen Lyda Paré (born 1946) is a Canadian writer. She has published three collections of poetry and two novels to date.
Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Paré was educated in
social work
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and
adult education
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, and worked in social services in Vancouver, British Columbia for much of her professional career."Who says bureaucrat's life is a waste of time?; Arleen Pare used her experience to produce a prizewinning book". '' Victoria Times-Colonist'', November 30, 2008. She later left her social services job to study creative writing at the University of Victoria.
Her first book, ''Paper Trail'', was published in 2007. A blend of poetry and prose about a businesswoman finding herself stifled by the weight of corporate bureaucracy, the book was a shortlisted nominee for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008, and won that year's City of Victoria Butler Book Award. She followed up with the novel ''Leaving Now'' in 2012.""Leaving Now" by Arleen Pare". '' All Points West'' ( CBCV-FM), August 13, 2012.
Her 2014 poetry collection ''Lake of Two Mountains'' won the
The Globe and Mail
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'', November 18, 2014.
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'', 2012. she once served on the board of ''
Plenitude The principle of plenitude asserts that the universe contains all possible forms of existence. Arthur Lovejoy, a historian of ideas, was the first to trace the history of this philosophically important principle explicitly. Lovejoy distinguishes ...
'' magazine.
Works
*''Paper Trail'' (2007, )
*''Leaving Now'' (2012, )
*''Lake of Two Mountains'' (2014, )
*''He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car'' (2015, )
*''The Girls with Stone Faces'' (2017, )
*''Earle Street'' (2020, )
*''First'' (2021, )
*''Time Out of Time'' (2022, )