Heather Pyrcz was born in B.C. and raised in Ottawa,
Whitehorse and Churchill. She received a B.A. and M.Ed. from the
University of Alberta, and an M.A. in English Literature from Acadia
University. She has taught grades 2-6 and was an instructor and faculty
consultant for the University of Alberta. A mother of two, she has spent
the last 20 years with her family in Wolfville, where she taught creative
writing and introductory English part time at Acadia University.
Gaspereau Press has published three of her books of poetry, Town Limits,
Nights on Prospect Street and Viaticum.
Heather has published in anthologies and literary journals across the
country. Her poems may be heard on CBC radio and The National Gallery
Autoguide. She has read widely in Canada including Victoria, Harbourfront
in Toronto, St. John, Charlottetown, Halifax, St. Johns, and on university
campuses.
Currently, she is completing a fantasy novel, a new book of poems with the
west coast artist Ted Colyer, A Digital History of Canadian Poetry for the
League of Canadian Poets, and up-dating The Canadian Oxford Guide to
Writing.
Selected Publications
Town Limits. (Gaspereau Press, 1997). ISBN: 1-894031-03-2
Nights on Prospect Street (Gaspereau Press, 1999) ISBN: 1-894031-17-2
Viaticum (Gaspereau Press, 2002) ISBN 1-894031-57-1.
Selected Anthologies
Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing,
1999)
ISBN: 1-896496-09-1
Landmarks: an Anthology of new Atlantic Poetry (Acorn Press,
2001) ISBN: 0-9698606-9-2
Mentor's Canon (Broken Jaw Press, 2001) ISBN 1-896647-46-4.
Larger Than Life (Black Moss Press, 2002) ISBN 0-88753-363-9.
The Common Sky: Canadian writers against the war(Three Square press,
2003) ISBN: 0-9732578-0-6
Books in Print
Pyrcz, Heather
Town Limits. (Gaspereau Press, 1997). ISBN: 1-894031-03-2, $11.95
Nights on Prospect Street (Gaspereau Press, 1999) ISBN: 1-894031-17-2, $12.95
Viaticum (Gaspereau Press, 2002) ISBN 1-894031-57-1, $16.95
Heather Pyrcz, 6 Prospect Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B4P 1L2
E-mail: heather.pyrcz@ns.sympatico.ca
Link 1: http://www.youngpoets.ca/otherresources
Link 2: http://www.writers.ns.ca/writers.html#P