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| Name | Laurie MacFayden |
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Biography | Laurie MacFayden is a writer, visual artist, photographer and former sports journalist. Her debut poetry collection, White Shirt (Frontenac House, April 2010), was shortlisted for the 2011 Lambda Literary Awards and won a Golden Crown Literary Award. Her second poetry manuscript, Kissing Keeps Us Afloat, will be released in 2014. Her writing has appeared in The New Quarterly literary magazine, Queering The Way, the Spire Poetry Poster, and the Ontario Poetry Societys chapbook anthology Love: The Main Course. A frequent performer with Edmonton's Raving Poets and Stroll of Poets, she was a regional finalist in the 2008 CBC National Poetry Faceoff and contributed to the inaugural online cycle of Dailyhaiku.org, and its first print offshoot, DailyHaiku I: A Daily Shot of Zen. She blogs at http://spatherdab.com |
| Publications | White Shirt (poetry, 2010, Frontenac House) Kissing Keeps Us Afloat (for release 2014, Frontenac House) |
| Awards | Winner, 2011 Golden Crown Literary Society Award, poetry Finalist, 2011 Lambda Literary Awards, poetry |
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