Yvonne Trainer

Yvonne Trainer has published one chapbook and four collections of poetry. As well, she has published in literary journals thoughtout the country and given hundreds of oral poetry readings. She holds a BASC in English, an MA in English/Creative writing and a PhD/ABD (to be completed in 2004) in 20th Century Literature with a two-year special topics area in Literature and Medicine. She is presently living in Edmonton. She was a recent Poet/Guest Speaker/Panelist for the Alden Nowlan Poetry Festival, honoring the "Life and Work of (Poet) Robert Gibbs" in Fredericton, N.B. at St. Thomas University.

Awards
Edmonton Arts Trust Fund Award for Writing, 2002.

Selected Publications
Tom Three Persons (Frontenac House Inc., 2002).
Landscape Turned Sideways (Goose Lane, 1988).
Everything Happens at Once (Fiddlehead/Goose Lane, 1986).
Customers (Fiddlehead, 1983).

Selected Anthologies
Listening with the Ear of the Heart (St. Peter's Press, Dave Margoshes ed., 2003).

Books in Print
Trainer, Yvonne
Tom Three Persons (Frontenac House Inc., 2002).
Landscape Turned Sideways (Goose Lane, 1988).
Everything Happens at Once (Fiddlehead/Goose Lane, 1986).

Yvonne Trainer, 12051-95th Ave., Edmonton, AB, T5G 1M6.
ytrainer@telusplanet.net