Lynn Crosbie (born 7 August 1963) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the

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Life and career

Crosbie was born in

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, Quebec, and now lives in

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, Ontario. She received her PhD in English from the

, writing her PhD thesis on the work of the American poet

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. She has taught at York, U of T, Guelph, and OCAD universities, and has taught shorter classes/workshops at Rutgers, Workman, Sistering, Flying Books And more. In 1997, Insomniac Press published her controversial book on the Canadian criminal

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, ''Paul's Case''. In 2006, Crosbie published a book-length poem titled ''Liar'', available through

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. ''Liar'' is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes, author of the poetry book '' Parts Unknown''. Her long relationship with the writer Tony Burgess is chronicled in ''Pearl'' (1996). Crosbie is a cultural critic, and the author of several books of poetry including ''Miss Pamela's Mercy'', ''Corpses of the Future'', and ''Missing Children''. Crosbie has lectured on and written about visual art at the AGO, the Power Plant, the McMichael Gallery, the Oakville Gallery, and OCAD University (where she taught for six years.) She is a journalist with who has a regular column titled "Pop Rocks" in the Toronto newspaper ''

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'' and was a regular contributor to ''Toronto Life Fashion''. Her

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Lecture was entitled "Don't Have Casual Sex". Her book ''Life Is About Losing Everything'', a roman à clef/fictional memoir, was released in April 2012 by House of Anansi. The book won the 2013

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in the fiction category. Her novel ''Where Did You Sleep Last Night'' was published in 2015 from House of Anansi."Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
''

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'', 2 May 2015. It was shortlisted for Ontario's Trillium Award. Her 2018 novel Chicken was optioned by filmmaker Bruce McDonald.

Bibliography

*''Miss Pamela's Mercy'' (Coach House, 1992) *''The Girl Wants To: Women's Representations of Sex and the Body'' (Coach House, 1993) (as editor) *''Villainelle'' (Coach House, 1994) *''Pearl'' (House of Anansi, 1995) *''Paul's Case'' (Insomniac Press, 1997) *''Click: Becoming Feminists'' (MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, 1997) (as editor) *''Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems'' (House of Anansi, 1998) *''Dorothy L'Amour'' (HarperCollins, 1999) *''Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse'' (Turtle Point, 2003) (with Jeffery Conway and

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) *''Missing Children'' (McClelland & Stewart, 2003) *''Liar'' (House of Anansi, 2006) *''Life Is About Losing Everything'' (House of Anansi, 2012) *''Where Did You Sleep Last Night?'' (2015) *''Chicken'' (House of Anansi, 2018)

References

External links

Lynn Crosbie archives
at the

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Lynn Crosbie
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