Maureen Scott Harris

Maureen Scott Harris (born April 24, 1943 Prince Rupert, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet.

Life

She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and moved to Toronto in 1964.

She graduated from University of Toronto. She worked as a cataloguer at the University of Toronto Library.

Her works appear in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat, Pottersfield Portfolio, Contemporary Verse 2, Room of One's Own, Event, Poetry Canada, Prairie Fire, Grail, and Grain.

She married Peter Harris, a professor at University of Toronto; they have two daughters, Jessica and Katharine.^[1][2]

Awards

• 2002 Arc's Poem-of-the-Year contest ^[3][4][5]
• 2009 WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize ^[6]

Works

Poetry

• Drowning Lessons. Pedlar Press. 2004. ISBN 0973214082. 
• The World Speaks. Junction Books. 2003. ISBN 189483108X.  (chapbook)
• A Possible Landscape. Brick Books. 1993. ISBN 091962667X.  (reprinted 2006)

Anthologies

• Linda Rogers, ed (1996). "Cleaning Cupboards; Looking at Photographs of My Daughters; Reading(s)". Vintage 95: League of Canadian Poets. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press. ISBN 9781550821703. 
• Edna Alford & Claire Harris, ed (1992). "I Spy Mother Cupboard". Kitchen Talk: Contemporary Women's Prose and Poetry. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press. ISBN 0889950911. 

Essays

• "The Cusp of Change", The National Post, September 15, 2001
• Pamela Banting, ed (1998). "Being Homesick, Writing Home". Fresh tracks: writing the western landscape. Lessons Professional Publishing. ISBN 9781896095424. http://books.google.com/books?id=MxnkhAnfKvoC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=Maureen+Scott+Harris&source=bl&ots=q-Mp7glJ2k&sig=1_vpzdv0PnICgSu33CFyVK4xAhc&hl=en&ei=aAvZSviCOYeIMpeS5NcH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Maureen%20Scott%20Harris&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/harris/bio.html
2. ^ http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/harrisma.htm
3. ^ http://www.arcpoetry.ca/logentries/pressreleases/000025_toronto_poet_wins_top_prize.php
4. ^ http://www.arcpoetry.ca/mag/contests/poem_of_the_year_contest.php
5. ^ http://individual.utoronto.ca/betts/eng356/MaureenScottHarris.htm
6. ^ http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/toronto_poet_and_essayist_maureen_scott_harris_wins_tasmanian_writing_prize

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