Elizabeth Greene came to Canada in 1965 to do graduate work in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Until 2007, she taught English at Queen's University, where she originated courses on Women Writers and Contemporary Canadian Women Writers. She also helped found Women's Studies and was instrumental in establishing courses in Creative Writing. She has published fiction in Quarry, Descant, Room of One's Own; creative non-fiction in Prairie Fire, First Writes, Double Lives and the Dropped Threads 3 website. She began publishing poetry in 2003. Her first book is The Iron Shoes (Hidden Brook Press).
She has also edited and co-edited five books, including We Who Can Fly:
Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman (Cormorant, 1997)
and Common Magic: The Book of the New (Artful Codger Press, 2008).
Awards
Betty and Morris Aaron Prize (Jewish Book Awards) for We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman (Cormorant,
1997).
Selected Publications
The Iron Shoes (Hidden Brook Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-1-894553-76-6
Selected Anthologies
We Who Can Fly:Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele
Wiseman (Cormorant,
1997)
ISBN: 0-920953-99-9
Common Magic: The Book of the New edited with Danielle Gugler (Artful Codger Press, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9782762-3-2
Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, ed Shannon Cowan, Fiona
Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse (McGill-Queen's,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-7735-3377-6
Books in Print
The Iron Shoes (Hidden Brook Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-1-894553-76-6, $15.95
Elizabeth Greene
Email: greenee@queensu.ca / egreene4@cogeco.ca
