Melanie Cameron
Melanie Cameron was born in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, in 1971. As a
child and young adult, she also lived in Saskatchewan, the United
States, and Latin America. In 1996, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba,
and continues to live there with her husband, author Mark Morton.
Cameron holds a BA from the University of Waterloo, an MA from the
University of Manitoba, and has been Poetry Co-Editor for Prairie Fire magazine since 2000.
Awards
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, Finalist, 2003.
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Finalist, 2001.
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Finalist, 1999.
Eileen MacTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Writer,
Finalist, 1999.
Selected
Publications
wake (The Muses'
Company: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 2003) ISBN 0920486495.
Holding the Dark (The Muses'
Company: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 1999) ISBN 1896239471.
Books in Print
Cameron, Melanie
wake, Poetry (The Muses'
Company: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 2003) ISBN 0920486495,
$14.95.
Holding the Dark, Poetry (The
Muses' Company: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 1999) ISBN
1896239471, $12.95.
Melanie Cameron
melanie.cameron@shaw.ca
http://members.shaw.ca/melanie.cameron
