Nancy Bauer

{{Short description|Canadian writer and editor}}

{{other| Nancy Bauer (philosopher)}}

Nancy Bauer, née Nancy Luke (born July 7, 1934) is a Canadian writer and editor who writes for a number of Canadian maritime magazines about people who write, produce crafts and create visual art.

Born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Grace Bridgeford and Wendell Luke,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&pg=PA94 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |page=94 |editor=New, William H |year=2002 |isbn=0-8020-0761-9 |title=Bauer, Nancy}} Bauer received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1956.

She moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965.{{cite web |url=http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=1050&L= |title=Nancy Bauer |publisher=Writer's Union of Canada |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224053100/http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=1050&L= |archivedate=2012-02-24 |url-status=dead}}

From 1967 until 1983, Bauer was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbooks.

She founded the Maritime Writers Workshop, and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick,{{cite book|last1=Mitcham|first1=Allison|last2=Quigley|first2=Theresia|title=Maritime Voices: Twentieth Century Stories by Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PEa-WBzYpkC&q=Nancy+Bauer+brunswick&pg=PA13|accessdate=3 November 2010|year=2000|publisher=DreamCatcher Pub.|isbn=978-1-894372-06-0|page=13}} the Cape Cod Writers Conference, East Word One, and Bemidji State University.

She was married to Bill Bauer, writer and retired professor, until his death in 2010.