An Evening with Jeanette Lynes
The University of Manitoba's Summer Session Visiting Scholars Program, Department of
English, Film and Theatre, and Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture present an evening
with award-winning poet, novelist, and educator Jeanette Lynes from Antigonish, NS.
Jeanette Lynes has published half a dozen collections of her poetry, including It's Hard Being
Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems (Freehand Books, 2008) and, most recently, The New Blue
Distance (Wolsak & Wynn, 2009). A co-authored chapbook with Alison Calder came out under
the Jack Pine Books imprint in December 2007. Jeanette Lynes's work has been featured in
several anthologies, and she has edited several more. The Factory Voice (Coteau Books, 2009)
is her first published work of fiction.
She has served in writer-in-residence positions in
Saskatoon and Dawson Cree k, BC. She holds a PhD
in English from York University and an MFA in
Creative Writing from the University of Southern
Maine. Jeanette spent six years working in Thunder
Bay before taking her current position as an English
professor at St. Francis Xavier University.
Please join us for the reading and stay for the
reception afterwards!
When: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Where: Aqua Books
274 Garry Street
(between Portage and Graham)