Lori Cayer

Born in Saskatchewan in 1961, Lori Cayer has made Manitoba her home since 1969. Her book of poems, Stealing Mercury (The Muses’ Company), won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book in Manitoba in 2004 and was nominated for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award the same year. Lori won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer in 2005.

Lori has participated in Poetry in Motion, Poets in the Schools, the Poetry Tent at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and has read at a side venue of the Winnipeg Writers Festival. She has hosted reading events, facilitated poetry workshops and done poetry readings in more than one city. Her poetry has won a few contests and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Lori served for several years as a board member of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild as a member at large, followed by terms as secretary, vice president, and finally as president. She is the poetry co-editor for the literary journal CV2. Her most recent accomplishment is that of co-founder of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, now part of the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards. She works by day as an Editorial Assistant for a National Research Council scientific journal.

Awards
Won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, 2004
Nominated for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, 2004
Nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, 2004
Won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, 2005

Lori Cayer, Winnipeg, MB
E-mail: loritodd@mts.net