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Nancy Holmes
- Nancy Holmes writes poetry and short fiction and has
published four collections of poetry, Valancy and the New World which won
the Kalamalka National Poetry Competition, Down to the Golden Chersonese:
Victorian Lady Travellers, The Adultery Poems and Mandorla. She grew up in Edmonton and Toronto and went to university at the University of Calgary
where she received an MA in English and Creative Writing. She lives in
Kelowna, BC and teaches Creative Writing at the University of British
Columbia Okanagan.
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- Awards
Kalamalka New Writers Competition, first prize, 1988
Alberta Culture Short Story Competition, first prize, 1988
- Selected Publications
Mandorla
(Ronsdale,
2005)
ISBN: 155380029X
The Adultery Poems
(Ronsdale,
2002)
ISBN: 0921870981
Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers
(Sono Nis,
1990)
ISBN: 0969348207
Valancy and the New World
(Kalamalka Press,
1988)
ISBN: 0969348207
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- Selected Anthologies
Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Editor), (Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
forthcoming 2008)
The Dominion of Love (Harbour, 2001)
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- Books in Print
Holmes, Nancy
Mandorla (Ronsdale,
2005)
ISBN: 155380029X, $15.95
The Adultery Poems, Poetry (Ronsdale, 2002) ISBN: 0921870981, $13.95
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- Nancy Holmes, Dept. of Creative Studies, UBC Okanagan,
3333 University Way,
Kelowna, BC,
V1V 1V7
Phone: (250) 807-9369
Email: nancy.holmes@ubc.ca
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