Nancy Holmes
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Early years
Holmes was born in EdmontonEdmonton
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and went to high school in Toronto
Toronto
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. She then attended the University of Calgary
University of Calgary
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where she received her MA
Master's degree
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in English
English studies
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.
Career
She has published four collections of poetryPoetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and many short stories
Short Stories
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. Her poetry and fiction
Fiction
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have been published in A Room of One's Own, Lichen, The Malahat Review, Matrix, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Harpweaver, and The Antigonish Review. Holmes is an Associate Professor of English
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
and Creative Writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Her works
- Valancy and the New World Kalamalka Press, 1988
- Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers Sono Nis, 1991
- The Adultery Poems Ronsdale, 2002
- Mandorla Ronsdale Press, 2005