Cookshaw, Marlene 1953-
COOKSHAW, Marlene 1953-
PERSONAL:
Born 1953, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Education: Attended University of Victoria.
ADDRESSES:
Home—4305 Corbett Rd., Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada V0N 2M1.
CAREER:
Poet. Victoria School of Writing, faculty member and workshop presenter.
AWARDS, HONORS:
First prize, poem of the year, Arc, 1997; first prize, national poetry contest, League of Canadian Poets, 1997; Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, 1999; Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2000.
WRITINGS:
Personal Luggage, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1984.
The Whole Elephant (poetry), Brick Books (London, Ontario, Canada), 1984.
Coupling (chapbook; prose poetry), Outlaw Editions (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 1994.
Bottomland: Poems (chapbook), Reference West (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 1995.
Double Somersaults (poetry), Brick Books (London, Ontario, Canada), 1999.
Work represented in anthologies, including Frictions, Second Story Press, 1989; The Macmillan Anthology 3, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1990; and Meltwater, Banff Centre Press, 1998. Contributor of poetry to literary magazines, including Matrix, Descant, Grain, Northern Light, and Fiddlehead. Editor, Malahat Review.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Canadian Literature, summer, 1991, Susan Rudy Dorscht, review of The Whole Elephant, p. 160.*