Nadine McInnis

Nadine McInnis was born in Belleville, Ontario and has lived in Toronto, northern Saskatchewan, presently residing in Ottawa. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she works as a senior policy analyst focussing on long-term issues affecting the book and magazine publishing industries for the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Awards
2003, Ottawa Book Award, short list
2002, Writers Craft Award (for best book of short stories by an Ontario author), short list.
2002, Danuta Gleed Award (for best first book of short stories by a Canadian ), short list.
1993 Ottawa-Carleton Book Award.
1993 Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, short list.
1996, 1993, First Prize, Nepean Library Short Story Contest.
1993, CBC Literary Award, poetry category.
1992, First Prize, League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest.

Selected Publications
Shaking the Dreamland Tree. (Coteau Books, 1986).
The Litmus Body. (Quarry Press, 1992).
Poetics of Desire: Nadine McInnis on Dorothy Livesay. (Turnstone Press, 1994).
Night Neighbours. (Polestar Press,1998).
First Fire/Ce feu qui dévore. (Vermillon, 2004), bilingual new and selected poems.
Quicksilver (Raincoast, 2001).

Selected Anthologies
Vintage 92. (Sono Nis Press, 1993).
A Room at the Centre of Things. (VŽhicule Press, 1997).
New Women Writers. (Oberon Press, 1997). 
Coming Attractions (Oberon, Fall, 1997, Ottawa) three short stories.
Quintet. (Buschek Books, 1999) fiction and poetry.
Constellations: Twenty Years of Stellar Poetry, (Polestar, 2001)
Entering the Landscape. (Oberon, 2001), fiction. 
Vital Signs: New Women Writers (Oberon, Spring, 1997, Ottawa) fiction.
100 Poets Against the War. (Salt, U.K., 2003).
Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. (Penumbra, 2003).

Books in Print
McInnis, Nadine
Hand to Hand. Polestar Book Publishers, 1998. $11.95, ISBN: 1-89609-531-3.
Poetics of Desire: Nadine McInnis on Dorothy Livesay. Turnstone Press, 1994. $12.95 ISBN: 0-88801-181-4.
The Litmus Body. Quarry Press, 1992. $11.95 ISBN: 1-55082-037-0.
First Fire/Ce feu qui dévore. (Vermillon, 2004), bilingual new and selected poems.
Quicksilver. Short Stories (Raincoast, 2001).