Poets This year, StoryFest will again be showcasing Canadian poets.
Born in New York to Canadian parents, Robyn Sarah has lived in Montreal since early childhood.
Her poetry began appearing in literary magazines in the early 1970s, while she completed studies at McGill and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. In 1976, Robyn co-founded Villeneuve Publications and until 1987 co-edited its poetry chapbook series which included first titles by August Kleinzahler, A. F. Moritz and others. The author of several poetry collections (most recently Pause for Breath, 2009) and two collections of short stories, she has also published a book of essays on poetry (Little Eurekas) and selected poems in French translation (Le tamis des jours). Her poems have been anthologized in Fifteen Canadian Poets x 2 and x 3, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor), Best Canadian Poems in English (2009) and elsewhere. Robyn Sarah was recently appointed poetry editor for Cormorant Books.
Jason Heroux is the author of two poetry collections, “Memoirs of an Alias” (Mansfield Press, 2004) and “Emergency Hallelujah” (Mansfield Press, 2008), and a new novella titled “Good Evening, Central Laundromat” (Quattro Books, 2010). His poems have appeared in chapbooks, anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Belgium, France, and Italy. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Claudia Coutu Radmore is a Montreal - born writer and educator. A graduate of Queen's University School, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1984. As Bondi Studios, she has published several poetry and fiction collections, her own and others. Her poetry and prose has been published in magazines. A member of Haiku Canada, she has presented papers on Japanese poetic forms, and performed renku in
Canada, Boston and New York. In 2005, and 2006 she was the consulting editor of Raw NerVz, the Canadian haiku review. She is currently one of the editors of Gusts, the Canadian tanka magazine. Her art consists of painting, drawing and the designing of book covers. She lives and works in Carleton Place, Ontario.
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