Maxianne Berger has been involved with poetry in and around Montreal since 1985. Her first book, How We Negotiate, appeared in 1999 from Empyreal Press. A French version of it was published by Écrits des forges in 2006; translated by Florence Buathier, it is titled Compromis. In 2003, with Angela Leuck, she co-edited the anthology Sun Through the Blinds: Montreal Haiku Today (Shoreline). She translates poetry, reviews poetry collections for several literary magazines, and has served as a judge for various youth poetry contests. In 2005-06, she was a poetry mentor for the Quebec Writers' Federation. When not involved in poetry, Maxianne Berger is an audiologist at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.
Selected Publications
Compromis (HWN, Florence Buathier, transl.)(Écrits des forges, 2006)
ISBN: 2-89046-967-0
How We Negotiate (Empyreal Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-921852-26-6
Selected Anthologies
Sun Through the Blinds: Montreal Haiku Today (Shoreline, 2003) ISBN: 1-896754-32-5
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, an imprint of Raincoast Books, 2005) ISBN: 1-55192-777-2
The Paradelle: An Anthology (Red Hen Press,
2005)
ISBN: 1-59709-023-9
Books in Print
Berger, Maxianne
Compromis (French trans. Florence Buathier; Écrits des forges, 2006) ISBN: 2-89046-967-0
Maxianne Berger
e-mail: maxib50@yahoo.ca