True Confessions

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Edited by: Renee Norman

Culled from the pages of Canada’s feminist quarterly journal, Canadian Woman Studies Journal/les cahiers de la femme, The Missing Line includes recent and varied work by twelve Canadian poets whose work is in turn both poignant and playful. The poets included in this important collection are: Carol A. Adams, Joan Bond, Rosita Georgieva, Kristjana Gunners, Anne Duke Judd, Marlene Kadar, Lea Littlewolfe, Rhoma Spencer, Renee Norman, Susan Swan, Joanna A. Weston and Patience Wheatley.

AUTHOR

Renee Norman

Renee Norman is an award-winning poet, a writer and a teacher. Her first volume of poetry, True Confessions, was awarded the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry in 2006. Her second book of poetry, Backhand Through the Mother, was published in 2007. Renee completed her graduate work at UBC and received the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation, which was published as a book by Peter Lang, New York. She has received several poetry and non-fiction prizes for her work. Currently Renee is a literacy consultant for Vancouver School Board. She lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia.