Rhona McAdam was born in Duncan - a great-granddaughter of the town's namesake - and grew up on Vancouver Island. She has divided her adult life between Edmonton Alberta and London England and moved to Victoria in 2002. Trained as a librarian, she has worked in information management, technology training and as a writer and editor. Her poetry has been published in Canada, the US, England and Ireland and she has been praised for her unique and engaging voice, her clarity, and her ability to balance the ethereal with the real. (Photo credit: Sue Rose)
Awards
Alberta Culture & Multiculturalism Poetry Award, for Hour of the
Pearl, 1987.
Short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award, for Old Habits, 1993.
Placed, nominated, commended or shortlisted: BC Federation of Writers
Literary Writes Competition; Cross-Canada Writers' Magazine
competition;
This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt; National Magazine Awards;
Open
University Poets Competition (UK); International Poetry Competition,
Atlanta
Review (USA); Whetstone Literary Competition.
Selected Publications
Crosswords
(Frog Hollow Press, 2003)
ISBN 0-9689907-9-7.
Old Habits
(Thistledown/Slow Dancer, 1993)
ISBN 1-895449-08-1.
Creating the Country
(Thistledown, 1989)
ISBN 0-920633-60-9.
Hour of the Pearl
(Thistledown, 1987)
ISBN 0-920633-27-7.
Life in Glass
(Longspoon,1984)
ISBN 0-919285-25-2.
Selected Anthologies
Echoes 12: Fiction, Media, and
Non-Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-19-541631-7.
The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of
Canadian Love Poems(Harbour, 2001) ISBN 1-55017-238-7.
In the Clear (Thistledown,
1998) ISBN 1-895449-84-7..
Books in Print
McAdam, Rhona
Crosswords
(Frog Hollow Press, 2003)
ISBN 0-9689907-9-7, $25.00.
Rhona McAdam
www.reallygoodwriter.com