Nancy Holmes

Nancy Holmes writes poetry and short fiction and has published three collections of poetry, Valancy and the New World which won the Kalamalka National Poetry Competition, Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers and mostly recently, The Adultery Poems.  She grew up in Edmonton and Toronto and went to university at the University of Calgary where she received an MA in English and Creative Writing.  She lives in Summerland, BC and teaches English at Okanagan University College in Penticton.  She has three teenage sons.

 

Awards
Kalamalka New Writers Competition, first prize, 1988
Alberta Culture Short Story Competition, first prize, 1988

 

Selected Publications
The Adultery Poems (Ronsdale, 2002)
Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers (Sono Nis,1990) ISBN 1-55039-005-8
Valancy and the New World (Kalamalka Press, 1988) ISBN 0969348207

 

Selected Anthologies
The Dominion of Love (Harbour, 2001)

 

Books in Print
Holmes, Nancy
The Adultery Poems, Poetry (Ronsdale, 2002)
Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers, Poetry (Sono Nis,1990) ISBN 1-55039-005-8

 

Nancy Holmes, RR2 S61B C14, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0 Canada
nholmes@ouc.bc.ca

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