Nancy Holmes
Nancy Holmes is a Canadian poet and educator.
Biography
Holmes was born in Edmonton and went to high school in Toronto. She then attended the University of Calgary where she received her MA in English.She has published four collections of poetry and many short stories. Her poetry and fiction have been published in A Room of One's Own, Lichen, The Malahat Review, Matrix, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Harpweaver, and The Antigonish Review. Holmes is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Works
- Valancy and the New World
- Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers
- The Adultery Poems
- Mandorla
- Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems
- The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems
- ''Arborophobia''