Short Bio
Jane Munro’s Blue Sonoma won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her newest poetry collection is False Creek (Harbour Publishing, 2022). Recent books include Open Every Window: A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre, 2021) and Glass Float (Brick Books, 2020).
She is a member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs who have published Whisk, Rhinoceros and Caution Tape.
Munro has taught Creative Writing at universities, led writing workshops, and given readings across Canada, in the USA, England, Ireland, Italy, Egypt, and India. She lives in Vancouver on unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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Shorter Bio
Jane Munro is a Canadian poet, writer, and educator. Blue Sonoma (Brick Books, 2014) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her recent books include False Creek (Harbour Publishing, 2022), Open Every Window: A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre, 2021) and Glass Float (Brick Books, 2020).
She has taught Creative Writing at universities, given many readings and writing workshops, and lives on unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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Longer Bio
Jane Munro’s sixth poetry collection Blue Sonoma (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. It was followed by Glass Float (Brick Books, 2020) and most recently False Creek (Harbour Publishing, 2022). Her previous poetry books include Active Pass (Pedlar Press), Point No Point (McClelland & Stewart) and Grief Notes & Animal Dreams (Brick Books).
Jane Munro’s prose memoir is Open Every Window (Douglas & McIntyre, 2021). A Sally Port (Espresso Chapbooks) – short prose pieces about her childhood – came out in 2018.
She is a member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs (Jan Conn, Mary di Michele, Susan Gillis, Jane Munro) who have published Whisk (Pedlar Press), Rhinoceros (Gaspereau) and Caution Tape (Collusion Books).
Jane Munro taught Creative Writing at several BC universities, earned a doctorate in Adult Education and M.F.A. from UBC, an M.A. in English from SFU, and has read to audiences across Canada and in Ireland, England, the USA, Italy, India, and Egypt. She lives in Vancouver on unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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