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Raised in
Montreal
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,
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, she was educated at
McGill University
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and the
Conservatoire de musique du Québec
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. She has published several volumes of poetry and short stories, and one book of essays. In addition to her writing, she has taught English literature at
Champlain Regional College
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and Porcupine's Quill.
She won a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 1990, and a
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in 1994 for her short story "Accept My Story". Her short story collection ''Promise of Shelter'' was a shortlisted nominee for the
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
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in 1998, and her poetry collection ''My Shoes Are Killing Me'' won the
Montreal Gazette
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'', October 28, 2015.
Works
Poetry
*''The Space Between Sleep and Waking'' (1981)
*''Anyone Skating on That Middle Ground'' (1984)
*''Becoming Light'' (1987),
*''The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected'' (1992),
*''Questions about the Stars'' (1998)
*''A Day's Grace'' (2003),
*''Pause for Breath'' (2009),
*''My Shoes Are Killing Me'' (2015),
Short stories
*''A Nice Gazebo'' (1992)
*''Promise of Shelter'' (1997)
Essays
*''Little Eurekas: A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry'' (2007)