Marianne Micros (born 1943) is a

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writer.Jeremy Luke Hill
"Folklore and mythology seen through the Eye of Guelph author Marianne Micros"
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'', December 8, 2018. A retired professor of English at the

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, her debut short story collection ''Eye'' was shortlisted for the 2019 Danuta Gleed Literary Award,"Debut short-fiction celebrated on Danuta Gleed shortlist"
'' Quill & Quire'', May 9, 2019. and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the

2019 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,"Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris and Armand Garnet Ruffo among 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists"
CBC Books, October 2, 2019. Micros previously published two poetry collections, ''Upstairs Over the Ice Cream'' (1979) and ''Seventeen Trees'' (2007), and has had both her poetry and short fiction published in literary magazines and anthologies.

Publications

* ''Upstairs over the ice cream'', 1979 * ''Al Purdy : an annotated bibliography'', 1980 * ''The creative circus book'', 1984 * ''Seventeen Trees'', 2007 * ''Eye'', 2018

References

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