Maureen Scott Harris

Maureen Scott Harris was born in Prince Rupert, BC in 1943, grew up in Winnipeg and has lived in Toronto since the mid-1960s. She has worked as a librarian, freelance editor and writer, part-time bookstore clerk, and now is production manager for Brick Books.

Awards
Grain Magazine. 12th Annual Short Grain Contest, Prose Poems, second prize,  2000
Arc (Ottawa). 6th Annual Poem of the Year Contest, second prize, 2001
Arc (Ottawa), 7th Annual Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2002
The Trillium Book Award for Poetry (for Drowning Lessons), 2005
Governor General's Silver Medal, University of Toronto, 1966.
Contemporary Verse 2 Poetry Contest, second Prize, 1997.

Selected Publications
Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press, 2004) ISBN 2: 0-9732140-8-2
The World Speaks- chapbook ( Junction Books, 2003) ISBN 1: 1-894831-08-X
A Possible Landscape. (Brick Books, 1993).

Selected Anthologies
Listening with the Ear of the Heart: Writers at St. Peter's (St. Peter's Press, 2003) ISBN 1-896971-24-5
Vintage 99 (League of Canadian Poets, 1999)
Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. (Polestar Press, 1998)
Vintage 95
. (Quarry Press/The League of Canadian Poets, 1996)
Kitchen Talk: Contemporary Women's Prose and Poetry. (Red Deer College Press, 1992)

Books in Print
Harris, Maureen
Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press, 2004) ISBN 1: 0-9732140-8-2. $21.00
A Possible Landscape (Brick Books, 1993; reprinted 2006) ISBN 2: 0-919-626-67-X

Maureen Harris
19 Biggar Avenue, Toronto, ON M6H 2N5
maureenh@sympatico.ca
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/www/canpoetry/harris/


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