Maureen Scott Harris

Maureen Scott Harris (born 24 April 1943 in Prince Rupert, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet.

Maureen Scott Harris
Born (1943-04-24) 24 April 1943
Prince Rupert, British Columbia
NationalityCanada
OccupationPoet

Life

Maureen Scott was born in British Columbia. She was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and moved to Toronto in 1964. She graduated from University of Toronto. During her time at university, she worked as a cataloguer at the University of Toronto Library.

Her works appear in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat, Pottersfield Portfolio, Contemporary Verse 2, Room of One's Own, Event, Poetry Canada, Prairie Fire, Grail, and Grain.

She married Peter Harris, a professor at University of Toronto; they have two daughters, Jessica and Katharine.[1][2]

Awards
  • 2002 Arc's Poem-of-the-Year contest[3][4][5]
  • 2009 WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize[6]

Works

Poetry
  • Drowning Lessons. Pedlar Press. 2004. ISBN 0-9732140-8-2.
  • The World Speaks. Junction Books. 2003. ISBN 1-894831-08-X. (chapbook)
  • A Possible Landscape. Brick Books. 1993. ISBN 0-919626-67-X. (reprinted 2006)

Anthologies
  • Linda Rogers, ed. (1996). "Cleaning Cupboards; Looking at Photographs of My Daughters; Reading(s)". Vintage 95: League of Canadian Poets. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press. ISBN 978-1-55082-170-3.
  • Edna Alford & Claire Harris, ed. (1992). "I Spy Mother Cupboard". Kitchen Talk: Contemporary Women's Prose and Poetry. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press. ISBN 0-88995-091-1.

Essays
gollark: That last bit does sound hilariously egotistical, but the vast majority of possible things which could be valued are basically entirely opposed to my own.
gollark: I think basically all the conveniently expressible "maximize X" things break horribly if actually taken seriously, and I also don't want people to just "have their own personal prescriptions about what is a good quality in the world", since it might severely disagree with mine.
gollark: BRB, maximizing paperclips.
gollark: This is at least... internally consistent and whatever, I think, it's just rather horrifying and not something I want to be judged by or anyone to be judged by.
gollark: Oh, and if for some reason you're an *incredibly* self-confident person who thinks all acts they do are right, you'll turn out maximally non-evil.

References
  1. "Biography", University of Toronto
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Biography", Canadian Poets website
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-27. Retrieved 2009-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Winning Entries", ARC Poetry website
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2009-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Poem of the Year", ARC Poetry website
  5. "Faculty", University of Toronto
  6. Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine "Toronto Poet . ." Toronto.com
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