Lorri Neilsen
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
E-mail: Lorri.Neilsen@msvu.ca

Lorri Neilsen is the author, editor and co-editor of six books on inquiry and literacy, including Knowing her Place (1998) which won NCTE’s Meade award for outstanding research in the English/language arts. As Lorri Neilsen Glenn, she has published three collections of poetry: All the Perfect Disguises (2003, Broken Jaw), Saved String (2007, Rubicon Press), and Combustion (2007, Brick Books). Neilsen Glenn's essays and poetry appear in national and international journals and anthologies. Currently, she is completing a collection of essays on grief and loss, serving a four-year term as Halifax Poet Laureate, and researching the role of place in contemporary Canadian women's poetry.

(updated 04/07)