Thrive presents Maureen Scott Harris and Sandra Davies

Monday, November 18, 2013 - 6:00pm

Grad Club
162 Barrie St
Kingston, ON
K7L 3K1

Thrive returns on Monday, November 18, with Toronto-based writer Maureen Scott Harris and Kingston local gem Sandra Davies.

Please note that the evening will begin a little earlier than normal, at 6pm.

Poet and essayist MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS was born in Prince Rupert, BC, grew up in Winnipeg, and lives in Toronto. She has published three collections of poems: A Possible Landscape (Brick Books, 1993), Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press, 2004) awarded the 2005 Trillium Prize for Poetry, and Slow Curve Out (Pedlar Press, 2012). Her essays have won the Prairie Fire Creative Non-Fiction Prize, the Sparrow Prize for Prose (from The LBJ, Reno, NV) and the WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize which included a residency in Tasmania. In 2012-2013 she was Artist-in-Residence at the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill, on the Oak Ridges Moraine.

SANDRA DAVIES is a retired palliative care nurse, and a “woman-come-lately” published poet. She has been entertaining herself hugely since she was a kid by writing poetry, starting with riffs on poems from a tiny book called Flower Fairies of the Garden, and moving on after partaking in brilliant workshops and edits by equally brilliant poets, to having a few poems published in the last three years by The New Quarterly, CV2, and the Kingston Poet’s Gallery. She has a so-far unpublished manuscript, entitled The Tell, circulating in the world.

Maureen's reading is made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts.