Alice Burdick & Jaime Forsythe

Sep 19/12

The Department of English and Theatre is proud to present Authors@Acadia.
Please join us in the Vaughan Quiet Reading Room on Wednesday, September 19, at 7 p.m.

Alice Burdick lives in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and has also lived in central Canada and on the West coast. In the early 1990s, she was co-editor of  The Eternal Network, and assistant coordinator of the Toronto Small Press Fair. Her work has appeared in magazines including Dig, What!, subTerrain, This Magazine, and Who Torched Rancho Diablo? She is the author of many chapbooks and two previous full-length collections, Simple Master (Pedlar Press) and Flutter (Mansfield Press). Her work has also appeared in anthologies and collections of Canadian poetry.

Jaime Forsythe is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and journalist. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including This Magazine, Geist, and The New Quarterly. She is a regular arts contributor to The Coast, and the editor of the fiction anthology Transits (Invisible Publishing). A graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program, she lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sympathy Loophole is her first book of poetry.

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