Big Win!

I am so honoured to have won the Vancouver Writer's Festival Poetry Contest for 2013 for my poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Garter Snakes." I wrote this poem, of course, after Wallace Stevens famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." And a few weeks ago, in Sechelt, I got to hear judge Evelyn Lau read her poetry in the Arts Centre and to meet her for the first time after the reading. How exciting! I am very pleased that my new book, out next year, will be with her publisher, Oolichan Books.

Garter Snake

I am looking forward to Spring Break in a few days when I will have time to focus on my writing once again.