Lorna Crozier

 

Lorna Crozier is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. She has been awarded the Governor-General’s Award for poetry, two Pat Lowther Awards, the National Magazine Gold Medal, the Canadian Authors’ Association Award and first place in the CBC literary competition. She has received two honourary doctorates, for her contributions to Canadian literature. In 2009 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2011 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

 

She has published seventeen books including, The Blue Hour of the Day, Selected Poems in 2007; Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir in 2009; and Small Mechanics, a collection of poems in 2011. She is the editor of two books of essays, most recently Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, of two anthologies of young Canadian poets and of Best Canadian Poetry, 2010.

Her poems have been translated into several languages; a Spanish version of selected poetry, La Perspectiva del Gato was published by Tricle Edicions in Mexicon City, and she has read her work across Canada and in such countries as South Africa, Scotland, Australia, Malaysia, France, Italy, England and Chile. Margaret Laurence called her “a poet to be grateful for.” Books in Canada claimed “she is one of the most original poets writing in English today.” The Ottawa Citizen wrote, “One of Canada’s most read and most honoured poets….[Crozier’s poems] become part of the reader’s permanent memory.”