Jane Munro (born December 3, 1943) is a Canadian poet. She has published six collections of poetry, including '' Blue Sonoma'', which won the 2015

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. ...

. Munro was born in North Vancouver,

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in 1943 and raised in

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and North Vancouver. She studied at the

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, undergraduate, M.F.A. and Ed.D.,

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B.A. and

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...

M.A. where she worked with poet

Robin Blaser Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada. Personal background Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack ...

. She taught creative writing in several Vancouver universities, and published her third collection, ''Grief Notes & Animal Dreams,'' in 1994. Munro uses a blend of Eastern and Western styles in her compositions. She belongs to the poetry collective Yoko's Dogs along with

Susan Gillis Susan Gillis is a Canadian poet and editor. Her collections of poetry include ''Swimming Among the Ruins'', shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award; ''Volta'', winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation A.M. Klein Prize f ...

Jan Conn Jan E. Conn (born 1952) is a Canadian geneticist and poet. She resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts where she does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health ...

, and

Mary di Michele Mary di Michele (born 6 August 1949) is an Italian-Canadian poet and author.Joseph Pivato. Mary Di Michele: Essays on Her Works'. Guernica Editions; 2007. . p. 206–. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec where she teach ...

. She is a proponent of Iyengar yoga and currently lives in Vancouver.

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Living people People from North Vancouver Canadian women poets University of British Columbia alumni Writers from British Columbia 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian women writers 1943 births Simon Fraser University alumni Indiana University alumni {{Canada-poet-stub