Anita lahey bio
Anita grew up in Burlington, ON, studied at Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson), maintains fierce familial ties with Cape Breton Island on Canada's East.!
Anita Lahey 's previous collection of poems, Out to Dry in Cape Breton [Signal Editions, ], was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award.
Anita Lahey's second collection of poems, Spinning Side Kick, was released by Véhicule Press in 2011. Her first book, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award, and she is a past winner of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, among others.
Her work has been shortlisted several times for the CBC Literary Award for Poetry. She worked as editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 2004 to 2011, and is also a journalist who has written for Canadian publications such as Maisonneuve, the Walrus, Cottage Life, Canadian Geographic and Quill & Quire.
She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Deena Kara Shaffer's debut poetry collection, The Grey Tote, will be released by Véhicule Press in Spring 2013. Currently a Learning Specialist at Ryerson University, Deena lives in Toronto.
Deena Kara Shaffer: Through Spinning Side Kick, your readers traverse the combative, the r
