Brenda Schmidt was born in Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan and grew up on a farm just north of there in the Coteau Hills. Brenda worked as a registered nurse in the mining community of Flin Flon, in northern Manitoba, from 1985-1998, living just across the border in Creighton, SK. She received a BA, English (Honours) from the University of Waterloo in 1998 and has since been working full-time as a writer and visual artist.
Awards
Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry, finalist (2002).
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry (2003).
Selected Publications
A Haunting Sun (Thistledown Press, 2001) ISBN 1-894345-34-7.
Selected Anthologies
Running Barefoot: Women Write the Land (Rowan Books, 2001) ISBN
096852579-2.
Listening with the Ear of the Heart
(St. Peter's Press, 2003) ISBN 1-896971-24-5.
Urban Coyote - New Territory
(Lost Moose Publishing, 2003) ISBN 1-896758-09-6.
Books in Print
Schmidt, Brenda
A Haunting Sun, Poetry (Thistledown Press, 2001) ISBN
1-894345-34-7, $9.95.
Brenda Schmidt, Box 742, Creighton, SK S0P 0A0 Canada
vinny@sasktel.net
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/schevv