Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Jamaican-Canadian, former nun, is an Ontario poet/educator. She studied, taught and worked in education in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kingston and Mandeville, Jamaica and in Toronto where she has lived since immigrating to Canada in 1969. A member of an active writing group of poets that regularly gives readings in Toronto, she also belongs to the Writers' Union of Canada, The Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Her poetry and non-fiction articles have been published in a variety of journals. Recently retired from the Ontario Ministry of Education, she divides her time between writing and projects in education.

Awards
Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Studio Scholarship, Fall, 1998.

Selected Publications
Travelling Light (Seraphim Editions, 2006) ISBN: 0-9734588-8-7
the fires of naming, Seraphim Editions, Toronto, 2001 (ISBN 0-9699639-8-X)
The Writer Within: Dialogue and Discovery, with Trina M. Wood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Toronto, 1989 (ISBN 0-7747-1320-X)

Selected Anthologies
Garden Variety, An anthology of flower poems (Quattro Books, 2007) ISBN: 978-0-9782806-4-2
Calling Cards, New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women (Sandberry Press, 2005) ISBN: 1-894528-02-6

Books in Print
Soutar-Hynes, Mary Lou
Travelling Light (Seraphim Editions, 2006) ISBN: 0-9734588-8-7, Canada $16.95/U.S. $14.95
the fires of naming, Seraphim Editions, Toronto, 2001 (ISBN 0-9699639-8-X), Canada $14.95/ U.S. $10.95
The Writer Within: Dialogue and Discovery (with Trina M. Wood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Toronto, 1989) ISBN 0-7747-1320-X

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, 67 Bluffwood Drive, Willowdale, On M2H 3L5
e-mail: bluffwood@sympatico.ca