Joanne Arnott is a Métis/mixed-blood writer, editor, mentor and arts activist, originally from Manitoba, at home on the west coast. Joanne received the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry (LCP 1992) and the Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award for Literary Arts acknowledging the body of her work (2017). She has published nine poetry books and chapbooks, a collection of short nonfiction, and a children’s illustrated. Recent publications include her third poetry chapbook, Pensive & beyond (Nomados Press 2019) and the co-edited volume, Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories and Poetry by Vera Manuel (U of Manitoba Press 2019). Joanne is Poetry Mentor for The Writers Studio, SFU, and Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine. Over the years she has collaborated with many writers and artists, mounting literary events in Richmond where she lives with her family, and working on a variety of publications with Richmond Writers Group, Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast, and Asian Canadian Writers Workshop.
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[…] ‘Joanne Arnott is a Métis/mixed-blood author, poet and arts activist who has published over ten books of poetry and prose. Her first book of poetry, Wiles of Girlhood (Press Gang) won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award in 1992. Her latest title is Halfling Spring: an internet romance with illustrations by Leo Yerxa (Kegedonce Press 2014). Her essays and poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies.’ She is the Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine, a Literary Adviser to Surrey Muse, and a founding member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast. More about Joanne is at the link below: joanne-arnott-surrey-muse […]
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