Guest Artists and Speakers: Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier is the Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Victoria. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she taught high school for several years before attending the University of Alberta to work on an M.A. in English. She then hit the road with her companion, the poet Patrick Lane, and for the next fifteen years they lived on their writing wits, serving as writers-in-residence and workshop teachers across the country. Their most recent residency was at the University of Toronto in 1989.
Lorna has published 12 books of poetry, the most recent being Apocrypha of Light (2002), What the Living Won't Let Go (1999), A Saving Grace (1996), Everything Arrives at the Light (1995) and Inventing the Hawk (1992). Her books have received the Governor-General's Award, the Canadian Authors' Association Award, two Pat Lowther Awards for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, the Dorothy Livesay Award, and the National Magazine Awards' Gold Medal. A suite of her poems won the CBC national writing competition. She has also published nonfiction in various anthologies and has edited a collection of essays by Canadian women writers, called Desire in Seven Voices (1999). With Patrick Lane she initiated and edited Breathing Fire, a book of poetry by writers under thirty years old, and an anthology of essays called Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast (2001). Her poems have been translated into several languages and she has read her work from one end of the world to another, most recently in Malaysia, South Africa and France.