Professional Experience

Teaching and Mentoring

• Workshop leader, Blue Pencil Days, Manitoba Writers’ Guild, 2006
• Instructor, 20:142 (Introduction to Ethics in World Religions), May 30 – June 23 2005
• Writing workshop leader, YMCA-YWCAWomen’s Wellness Retreat, 2005
• Teaching Assistant/Grader/Marker (20:132), University of Manitoba 2004-2005
• Teaching Assistant/Grader/Marker, Women and Religion, 2003
• Instructor, Creative Writing (04.276), Continuing Education, University of Manitoba, 2003
• Creative Writing Instructor, Rady Jewish Centre, Winnipeg, 2003
• Workshop Leader, private writing group, Winnipeg, 2003
• Teaching Assistant/Grader/Marker for God and Evil (20:138), Death and Concepts of the Future (20: 247), Introduction to World Religions (20:132). Professors Neal Rose, Moshe Stern and Brenda Cantelo, 1994 – 2002
• Invigilator for final exams, 1997 – 2002
• Substitute instructor for God and Evil, Death and Concepts of the Future, Introduction to World Religions. Professors Neal Rose and Moshe Stern 1994 – 1999
• Mentor for the Mentor Program sponsored by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild
Conducted four two-day writing workshops
Conducted two-day writing workshop for Children of the Earth School, 1990, 1992-93
• Writer-in-Residence, Winnipeg Centennial Library, 1991
• Editing, workshopping and teaching in creative writing, 1975 – 1990

Recent Editing

• Co-editor, A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing, Manitoba Writers' Guild (Winnipeg), 2007
• Co-editor, “Home Place, The Poets of Winnipeg,” a special section of Prairie Fire magazine (28,1), 2007

Literary Juries

• Juror for Winnipeg Arts Council individual grants, 2006
• Canadian Authors Association poetry competition, McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, League of Canadian Poets poetry competition and Pat Lowther Award, 1992-94

Organizing

• Creative Director for the West End Cultural Centre’s first and second annual writers’ festival, Words on Stage, 1989-90
• Founding member of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild, 1978-81
• Served on Board of Directors, 1981-83
• Founding Editor of Writers News Manitoba, now Prairie Fire, 1978
• Served for five years as Poetry Editor, 1979-84
• Organized numerous workshops, readings and major literary conferences for the Manitoba Writers’ Guild.

Publications

Books

• Singing Bone (Muses Company, Montreal, 1997)
• Heart and Stone (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1989)
• While You Were Out (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1981)

Anthologies

• Cadsby, Heather and Maria Jacobs, eds., The Third Taboo (Wolsak & Wynn, Toronto, 1983)
• Clark, R.J. and Martha Gould, eds., Towards 2000, Poetry of the Future (Fifth House Publishers, Saskatoon, 1991)
• Cooley, Dennis, ed., Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1981)
• Duncan, Mark, ed., Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1988)
• McCance, Dawne, ed., “Ethics and the Goddess” in Life Ethics in World Religions (Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1998)

Periodicals

• “Does Nature Have Rights?”, The Journal of Faith and Science Exchange, Boston Theological Institute, Boston, MA, 2001
• Numerous publications of poems in Canadian literary journals, including Border Crossings, Poetry Canada Review, CV2, Northern Light, Dandelion, Island, The New Quarterly, NeWest Review, Germination, Grain, Prairie Fire and many others, 1970s – 2007

Public Readings (Literary)

• League of Canadian Poets Poetry Fest, Edmonton, 2007
• “Writes of Spring,” League of Canadian Poets, Winnipeg, 2007
• Winnipeg Folk Festival, Manitoba Writers’ Guild Stage, 2006
• Readings of new material at McNally Robinson and “Speaking Crow,” 2005
• Oak Bank School Reading, 2005
• Contest poem “More” broadcast on CBC Radio, 2003
• Readings and literary events at the Blue Note Cafe, the West End Cultural Centre, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Heaven Art and Book Cafe, Chapters in Toronto, the Frances Morrison Library in Saskatoon, St. Peter’s Abbey Literary Library, Saskatchewan, McNally Robinson Booksellers Winnipeg, both Grant Park and Portage Place, and many other venues 1970s – 2007

Conferences and Presentations (Academic)

• Presented paper “Monster in the Margins: Witch as Teratosis” for Scholar Stream GaiaGathering, University of Winnipeg, 2007
• Presented paper “The Ethics of Violence,” SSHRC Annual Conference, June 2004, University of Manitoba, 2004
• Presented paper “Does Nature Have Rights?”, SSHRC Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2000
• Department of Religion Colloquium series: “The I and the Body,” discussion paper, University of Manitoba, 1999
• Presented paper “Rewriting the Witch Body” at (The) Concrete Matters Conference on Feminist Materialism, University of Alberta, 1998
• Department of Religion Colloquium series: “Ecofeminism and Shaktism,” discussion paper, University of Manitoba, 1998
• Department of Religion Colloquium Series: presented discussion paper, “The Witch as Practitioner of the Ethics of Power,” University of Manitoba, 1996

Fellowships and Awards (Academic)

• Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, 1998
• Graduate Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 1998
• The Duff Roblin Graduate Fellowship (UMGF), 1997

Grants (Literary)

• Winnipeg Arts Council and Manitoba Arts Council professional development grants to attend League of Canadian Poets Poetry Fest in Edmonton, 2007
• Manitoba Arts Council A Grant to develop a new manuscript of poetry, 2006
• Manitoba Arts Council A Grant to develop a new manuscript of poetry, 1992
• Manitoba Arts Council Senior Arts Grant, 1990
• Manitoba Arts Council A Grant to develop a new manuscript of poetry, 1989
• Two Manitoba Arts Council B grants for writers to develop poetry collections, late 70s, mid 80s

Memberships

• Manitoba Writers’ Guild (lifetime)
• League of Canadian Poets

Education

• 2007 MA, University of Manitoba, Religion
• 1981 BA, University of Manitoba, French Literature