Nancy Holmes
{{short description|Canadian poet and educator (born 1959)}}
Nancy Holmes (born February 9, 1959) is a Canadian poet and educator.{{cite web |title=Nancy Holmes |website=Canadian Poets |url=http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/holmesn.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008134032/http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/holmesn.htm }}
Biography
Holmes was born in Edmonton and went to high school in Toronto. She then attended the University of Calgary where she received her MA in English.[http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=4810 View author at ABCBookWorld]
She has published four collections of poetry and many short stories. Her poetry and fiction have been published in A Room of One's Own, Lichen, The Malahat Review, Matrix, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Harpweaver, and The Antigonish Review. Holmes is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.[http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/faculty/nholmes.html Nancy Holmes at ubc.ca]
Works
- Valancy and the New World (Kalamalka Press, 1988)
- Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers (Sono Nis, 1991)
- The Adultery Poems (Ronsdale, 2002){{Cite web |url=http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/adulterypoems.html |title=The Adultery Poems - Nancy Holmes |access-date=2007-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013234415/http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/adulterypoems.html |archive-date=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead }}
- Mandorla (Ronsdale Press, 2005)[http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/mandorla.html Mandorla: By Nancy Holmes at ronsdalepress.com]
- Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2008)
- The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (2012)
- Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022)
References
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External links
- [https://www.nancyholmes.ca/ Author web site]
- [http://bcwriters.com/off_the_page.php?id=23 Nancy Holmes biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013234415/http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/adulterypoems.html The Adultery Poems]
- [http://www.poetics.ca/poetics05/05thesen.html Interview with Nancy Holmes]
- [http://www.projectliteracykelowna.org/newslet/07feb/3.htm Helping Community]
- [http://www.abebooks.com/docs/randomactsofpoetry/bios.shtml Random Acts of Poetry]
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Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
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