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Email:
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Lorri Neilsen Glenn grew up in Western Canada and now lives and teaches in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and returns to Saskatchewan when she can. Her love both of the East Coast and the Prairies is evident in her collections of poetry, the most recent being Lost Gospels (Brick Books, 2010), and in her creative nonfiction, including memoir. Lorri is the author and contributing editor of seven collections of essays and ethnographic work and an anthology about mothers of the 1950s. Lorri has taught at The Great Blue Heron workshop, for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, St. Peter's Writing Program, Los Parronales Writers' Retreat, Mount Saint Vincent University, Edith Cowan, James Cook, Queensland, and Murdoch Universities, among other organizations.
Former Poet Laureate of Halifax (2005-2009), Lorri has worked with writers of all ages, including the youth group Wordfishing. She has participated in the WFNS mentorship program, and organized and led writing workshops in Ireland, Australia and several Canadian provinces. Her essays and poetry appear in national and international magazines.
- Lost Gospels. Brick Books, 2010. ISBN: 1894078772.
- Combustion. Brick Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-894078-55-9.
- Saved String. Rubicon Press (chapbook), ISBN 978-0-9781616-1-3.
- All the Perfect Disguises. Broken Jaw Press, 2003. ISBN 1-55391-010-9.
- Winner of the Poet's Corner Award.
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- The Art of Writing Inquiry. Edited by Lorri Neilsen, Ardra L. Cole, & J. Gary Knowles. Backalong Books and The Centre for Arts-informed Research, 2001. ISBN 1-894132-06-8.
- Knowing Her Place: Research Literacies and Feminist Occasions. Halifax, NS: Backalong Books and Caddo Gap Press, 1998. ISBN 894132-02-5.
- A Stone In My Shoe: Teaching Literacy in Times of Change. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1994. ISBN 1-895411-73-4.
- Literacy and Living: The Literate Lives of Three Adults. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books, 1989. ISBN 0-435-08493-3.
2005 Award for Research Excellence: Mount Saint Vincent University.
Canada Council funding for nonfiction manuscript on grief and loss.
1999 Meade Award for outstanding research in the English/Language Arts.
Awards (short listed or won) in the following: National Magazine Awards, Arc, Bliss Carmen, CV2, Prairie Fire, Grain (Short Grain), among others.
"Lorri Neilsen Glenn has done what all mid-career poets long to do: make themselves magnificently vulnerable." - Winnipeg Free Press
"Of Lorri Neilsen Glenn's winning poem, 'You think of Meister Eckhart,' Judges Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane said: 'this poem reminds us again of poetry's connection with song. How smoothly the phrases move through the mind and into music. It's a small tour de force of sound and meaning, lyricism at its most brilliant.'" - The Malahat Review Open Season Award
