Anna Swanson has paid the rent by planning festivals, selling books, serving drinks, making maps, walking on stilts, bowling with teenagers, writing press releases, and watching for forest fires. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her first book of poetry, The Nights Also, won a Lambda Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. She lives in Vancouver, BC, and works as a children’s librarian.
Awards:
- Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian, 2011
- Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry, 2011
- Lina Chartrand Award for Poetry (CV2), 2009
- PRISM International Student Poetry Contest, First Place, 2007
- Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, Honourable Mention, 2004
Photo by Vivienne McMaster