Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Jamaican-Canadian, former nun, is an Ontario poet/educator with a special interest in writing and language education.

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. She holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum from OISE/UT, Supervisory Officer certification and has completed course work towards an Ed.D.

Mary Lou’s poetry and non-fiction articles have been published in a variety of journals including Arc, Canadian Woman Studies, Lichen, Surface and Symbol and the chapbook anthology, Six from the Sixth, Sixth Floor Press, 2002. She is co-author with Trina Wood, of The Writer Within: Dialogue and Discovery, Harcourt Brace, Toronto, 2002. Her poetry has been reproduced in Elements of English 12, Harper, Hilker and Smith, Harcourt Canada, Toronto, 2002. In 1998 she participated in the Writing Studio Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her first poetry collection, The Fires of Naming, was published by Seraphim in 2001. Following her retirement from the Ontario Ministry of Education in 2002, she divides her time between writing and projects in education.

Mary Lou is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the League of Canadian Poets, where she is the Toronto Representative on the Council for 2005-2006.

The League of Canadian Poets

Book Review of Travelling Light

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