Tanis MacDonald

Tanis MacDonald writes, studies and teaches in Victoria, but roams the wild prairie like a bison whenever she gets the chance. Holding Ground was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award, and for the Eileen Sykes MacTavish Award at the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards in 2001.

She was the premier recipient of the Milton Acorn/Muriel Rukeyser award for her chapbook This Speaking Plant (Unfinished Monument Press) in 1997. She won the Bliss Carman Award for Poetry in 2003. Her second book, Fortune (Turnstone Press) was nominated for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book at the MWP Awards in 2004.

Website Link: Tanis MacDonald, University of Victoria

The League of Canadian Poets

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